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Crafty Computing
Sunday, 13 February 2011
I'm Back! :)
I know it's been absolutely ages since I've been on here, but I haven't forgotten about it lol. So it may get inundated with posts catching up on what I've done/ made. Anyways I'm sitting here playing around in photoshop designing something for my parents anniversary card (I'll post a picture when I've done it) and I have done a little sheet of Sentiments for you for freee!
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Staying safe online!
Okay so should be reivising but I just wanted to give you some tips to stay wise on the net!
As many of you are aware fraudsters are everywhere!
Many of them will send you emails or even phone calls pretending to be a company or bank that you trust. These guys are clever in how they trick you out of money or details, HOWEVER there are faults in their methods! And I almost fell for one the other day pretending to be Amazon (as I have put a couple of things on their to sell as their not wanted no more), their very clever in how they do it too, a 'customer' contacted me via Amazon asking me to send pictures to show its condition, therefore I did so thinking it was a genuinely interested customer. Not did I know that they was only asking to get hold of my email address to send me emails from the 'customer' to say their happy with the condition and are going to purchase, followed by another email from Amazon (fake one) sending me what looks similar to the notification that I would receive when someone purchases a product from me on Amazon. Although, like I said their were faults to the email.. different layout, extra text, grammar not quite correct and email addresses for me to contact that were not @amazon.co.uk. Long story short I checked up on the email address domain (the bit after @) and it turns out its used frequently by fake companies!
So here are my tips for spotting a fraudsters email:
Stay Safe!!
As many of you are aware fraudsters are everywhere!
Many of them will send you emails or even phone calls pretending to be a company or bank that you trust. These guys are clever in how they trick you out of money or details, HOWEVER there are faults in their methods! And I almost fell for one the other day pretending to be Amazon (as I have put a couple of things on their to sell as their not wanted no more), their very clever in how they do it too, a 'customer' contacted me via Amazon asking me to send pictures to show its condition, therefore I did so thinking it was a genuinely interested customer. Not did I know that they was only asking to get hold of my email address to send me emails from the 'customer' to say their happy with the condition and are going to purchase, followed by another email from Amazon (fake one) sending me what looks similar to the notification that I would receive when someone purchases a product from me on Amazon. Although, like I said their were faults to the email.. different layout, extra text, grammar not quite correct and email addresses for me to contact that were not @amazon.co.uk. Long story short I checked up on the email address domain (the bit after @) and it turns out its used frequently by fake companies!
So here are my tips for spotting a fraudsters email:
- they will ask you for details such as address, bank details, credit cards, passwords etc (real companies will never ask you this in an email!
- if they contain email addresses outside of their usual email address domain (e.g. if they usually send emails from @amazon.co.uk but state email addresses @consultant.com, don't trust them and certainly don't send them anything, check with company first (email amazon directly before sending anything to that address)
- read through all the text, if it doesn't sound right in some places its usually because they've used an online translator or have not read through the text)
- if it is an email from Amazon or EBay about an order check in your account online if it's not there then there's no real order
Stay Safe!!
Monday, 14 June 2010
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
I have joined!
Yes! I have joined the new blogging craze in In2Crafting! And I feel ashamed that it's taken me this long!! Especially as Im the IT Dept! Anyways Im here now anddd I shall be doing some Crafty Computer Techniques (as the name suggests), as I don't own a Cuttlebug or Cricut or Big Shot :( I have my trusty computer to provide me with some crafty ideas! I'll try to post on here as much as often with new ideas and inspirations, but cant promise anything due to my time consuming college :(
PLUS
If you have any computer queries you can contact me for help and advice or if you have any ideas of what you would like to be able to do using your computing for cardmaking, scrapbooking or more hobbies, feel free to contact me and I will try to find a way! I love a challenge!
PLUS
If you have any computer queries you can contact me for help and advice or if you have any ideas of what you would like to be able to do using your computing for cardmaking, scrapbooking or more hobbies, feel free to contact me and I will try to find a way! I love a challenge!
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