Changing your Yahoo! Mail password, if not inevitable, is necessary. Regularly changing your password not only keeps your password from being guessed by your friends, but it also protects your account from being accessed by phishers or scammers. Here is a step-by-step instruction on how you can change your current Yahoo! Mail password. Log in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Email Security’
Email Scams Using Red Cross
Red Cross is all about protecting human welfare and alleviating human suffering. The email scams involving it, however, do exactly the opposite. Sadly, the non-profit organization famous for holding blood drives and conducting medical seminars has constantly been used by email scanners to acquire personal information or steal donation money from oblivious email recipients. Seeking [...]
Fake Email from Northwest Airlines Contains Trojans
Yet another email scam is on the rounds to deceive oblivious Internet users. Only this time, the email wasn’t “sent” by a lottery commission or a financial institution. The fraudulent email that is currently invading the inboxes of frequent fliers is allegedly from the travel office of Northwest, a major airline in the United States. [...]
Bomb Threats Sent to Leela Hotels via Email
Explosive devices have been planted in every single Leela Hotel in India. Or so the email says. The bomb threat, which was sent to the management office of Leela Hotel in Mumbai, is claiming that the anonymous senders will blow up each and every Leela Hotel in the country if the owners fail to pay [...]
Archbishop Tutu Involved in Email Scam
Nobody is safe from being victimized by an email scam. Not even Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Archbishop Emeritus of South Africa. A new fraudulent email claiming to be sent by the archbishop is currently invading email inboxes all over the world. The main objective of the scammers who composed and sent [...]