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It keeps coming doesn’t it?  It seems someone must come up with a ‘fantastic’ idea of how to scam people out of their hard-earned money and then others pick it up too.  A wave of emails with the same topic but different send from addresses.

For awhile it was job offers to Virtual Assistants, last week it was VA Certification applications and this week it appears to be bookings for airline tickets.  Or should I say ‘Your Flight Ticket Nxxx’.  To date I have received several of these from different airlines - I mean how many flights did I book recently? Ummm, none that I recall.

For the uninitiated or those very green to the Internet, they may well take these emails as genuine and for those who have been around awhile they might be a tad wary, whereas the rest of us, just hit delete and move onto the next email.

If you are in doubt about the genuineness of an email and you don’t know the sender personally, then I encourage you to Google the subject of the email - if it’s spam or a scam, you’ll soon find references to it.  And if it doesn’t come up, then possibly it’s worth checking with someone you know who is more internet savvy than you, like your ISP or webhost for example.  And even if it was sent to you by someone you know well - always worth checking anyway.  They might have been infected by a virus or trojan and are unaware the email came from their address at all.

Tags: Warnings //