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Phishing
Sir Apfelot Blog
26 April 2022
Sometimes strange things happen. For example, I just wanted to go to ebay-kleinwerbung.de, type in the domain in the browser and land on a page that tells me that I have a "popup adware virus" on my [...]
10 September 2021
This morning I received an email that Apple Mail had pre-sorted into the spam folder as a precaution. That surprised me, because it apparently came from the savings bank and provided information on the Tan process. It was both [...]
12 April 2021
After several million data records were stolen from users on Facebook, LinkedIn and Clubhouse, there is now a flood of fake SMS messages in German-speaking countries. In these a package is announced, its dispatch is shown or the [...]
10 April 2021
Today I received an email again, about which I would like to give you a warning. The sender is "Customer Service" and the subject is "Amazon Security Alert". The content of the mail is also designed as [...]
1 March 2021
When I get email from banks, I usually assume it's spam or phishing. Hardly any bank still relies on e-mails when it comes to communicating with customers, if you [...]
9 December 2020
It's been a while since I issued the last phishing alert. That in itself is a good sign, because the hosters are more and more eager to receive these emails from [...]
19 May 2020
Once again there is a message from the area of phishing, because I received an email that night that allegedly came from Amazon. The sender name is Amazon.de Security Center and the subject contains "New message!", A [...]
20 April 2020
A few days ago, PayPal changed the terms of use and terms and conditions, which is currently used by fraudsters to send phishing emails. A scam email also landed in my mailbox. She reveals how already so [...]
11 March 2020
Lately there have been an increasing number of phishing attempts by fraudsters who try to steal data from a wide variety of target groups via widely distributed e-mails. The last time here in the blog was about phishing emails allegedly from
7 March 2020
After I recently warned of a Sparkasse phishing email, the next candidate arrived right away: An email that supposedly came from Postbank and advised me that I was upgrading the [...]