It’s that time of the night (usually around 6:30pm) and the phone rings. A lovely Indian voice from Support On Click tells you that your computer has serious problems which must be fixed by paying them a subscription fee for a remote support session. Would you be suspicious? What if the caller told you that…
All posts in Internet
Australian shops in spam subject
Recently my hotmail account junk e-mail filter has been catching some rather ‘Australian-targeted’ spam. Often with a sender of ‘Thanks for participating!’, ‘Much Thanks!’, the subject lines claim to have a voucher pending for me from an Australian store like Myer, Wollworths or JB-Hi Fi (though I’ve also seen an iPhone one too). The company is…
Technology moves
Well, the whole office moved really, this weekend. And in a rare moment of quite, surrounded by not quite as many boxes, I thought it was about time I added a new blog post. Can you tell things around here have been a little busy? So, a couple of tips for moving your technology (which…
Credit card fraud – happens to the best of us
I’ve always been very vigilant about watching the transactions that appear on my credit card, which is even easier to do when you can view them online via internet banking before they disappear off to your paper statement copy. Fortunately the fraud department at my business bank is just as vigilant, stopping a transaction from…