by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 24, 2020 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is about a phishing email presently circulating that attempts to lure you into clicking on a link in order to continue using your AOL account. If you click on the link one of two things can occur and both are bad. Either you will end up...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 12, 2019 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is about a phishing email presently circulating that attempts to lure you into clicking on a link in order to continue using your AOL account. If you click on the link two things can occur and both are bad. Either you will end up...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 6, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Millions of people still use AOL and so scammers and identity thieves often send out phishing emails that appear to come from AOL, such as the one reproduced below. The logo and format of this particular email that is presently circulating is quite poor. Compare it...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 7, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing scams often take the form of emails that you receive that appear to be legitimate and require you to click on a link contained in the email for various reasons which also may appear legitimate. However, in the case of phishing emails, if you click on the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 26, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Many AOL users have been reporting the following scam email reproduced below that is appearing in their email box. It carries a subject line of “Admin Service Solution” and it describes a virus as having been detected in the email of the person receiving...