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  • Email, banks scams

    Posted by Susan Waters on July 5, 2022 at 10:11 am

    I receive about 5 emails weekly requiring me to log in and update my personal information. I do not respond obviously and report fraud to the company always. But that doesn’t stop the emails.

    So I looked on line to find an app that can keep me safe. I found Cyber Ghost 8. It is for minimal users like myself.

    I’d like to know if you all use it or give me a option.

    Thanks

    Susan

    J.C. Hall replied 2 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • J.C. Hall

    Member
    July 5, 2022 at 11:19 am

    Hi Susan,

    If you are getting unwanted scam/spam emails, your email address has been exposed and most likely sold on the dark web. I tell my clients to abandon any email address that receives those emails. I also tell them to use separate email addresses for financial, shopping, other personal business, etc. and never use personal email addys for logging into any website or for personal business.

  • J.C. Hall

    Member
    July 5, 2022 at 11:27 am

    This won’t let me post the website, but if you search “Have I Been Pwned” you can check your email addy(s) to see if they have been expsoed.

    Kim has posted the website link by Troy Hunt before.

  • Susan Waters

    Member
    July 14, 2022 at 7:25 pm

    J.C. thanks. I’m sure you’re right. I do have a GMAIL account that has not been affected. I’ll start using that one.

    I did go to Kim’s site to find an anti virus and it took me to TOTALAV. When I downloaded the app I was warned that using that app could damage my computer. Which anti virus is best.

    Thanks much.

  • J.C. Hall

    Member
    July 19, 2022 at 12:59 pm

    Excellent!

    Susan, share a screenshot of the warning if you can, I’m still using Kasperky , so I’m not sure what the Total AV install process looks like, but one of the team members here may recognize the screenshot to see if it’s familiar.

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