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Here's something to watch out for - especially when it's 4 am and you should be sleeping, but you're using the monitor as a head rest just till you finish wading through all your email!
In a relatively new twist to the phishing scams out there, con artists are now sending out very official looking "invoices."
These can come in the form of requests for payment from virtually any company - and if it seems to come from one you regularly deal with, you might be convinced that it's really from the company.
I received a comfirmation of payment invoice from "Paypal" showing that my payment of a rather large sum had successfully gone through.
The email was completely official looking, right down to most of the links, and looked exactly like an email from Paypal. My immediate response was to think, "Hey, I never made that purchase! I better let them know right away that there's been a mistake!"
The temptation in such an event is to click the link in the email to contact Paypal and let them know about the mistake. However, I have learned to check the links (do that by holding your mouse over the links and reading the real link down in the lower left corner of your browser.) Of course, when I did that, the link pointed to some totally different site.
The simple rule is, NEVER, NEVER click a link in your email. Go directly to the REAL site to check these things out.
Be very careful. There is no end to the tricks that con artists will try to rip you off.
God bless,
Dave
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