Tag Archives: phishing

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHere are the top five most prevalent and dangerous scams being reported today — how to recognize them and how to protect yourself. These days, you really need to keep aware of what’s going around, so you — or your friends or family members — don’t get …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.2MB)Subscribe: RSSI get phony scam emails just like you do.  Here are some of the more outrageous ones I’ve received, recognized, failed to fall for — and saved so I could give  you a laugh!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 9.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDer Bingle and Satchmo – that’s Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong, in case you’re culturally deprived – had a hit record about fishin’ back in nineteen fifty-one, but today the meaning of the term, and the spelling, have changed. Phishing, spelt with a “ph”, is a cybercrime …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 9.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreTwo scams are hitting right in our area, right now – a fake email about cancelling your email address, and fake postings that send strangers to your house, thinking it’s for rent! Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana. Executive …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 9.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Jury Duty scam is back locally; lawyers in Florida are legally ripping off people and businesses which have websites; and Google is warning about a rash of hackers looking at your security cameras. Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:42 — 20.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAttorneys representing Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill are bringing a defamation lawsuit against Hill’s alleged sexual assault victims; Monroe County signs a memorandum of understanding with the City of Bloomington, outlining mutual commitments to the Monroe County Convention Center expansion; The Hoosier National Forest is adding over 100 acres …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 3.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSome stupid scammers tried to hook our News Director, but they’re far from the only ones you’ve got to beware of right now – WFHB’s Richard Fish brings us this report about several fraudulent schemes.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 9.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLet’s take a look at where we stand, what we can look forward to, and how we can at least try to keep ourselves safe in the face of an increasing avalanche of attacks by scammers and con artists from all over the world. First of all, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 3.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreChipotle Restaurant’s credit card hack, and the Judy malware on Android phones, have definitely hit some folks right in our local area, as well as around the country.