New Scam (TIKTOK delivery)

Posted by promacnyc on July 10, 2025 in Mac, News, Scams, Tips |

“We’ve got your Tiktok parcel” I’m just posting this in case you got an email indicating you got a “delivery” from something you “ordered” from TikTok. This email came from a company called EVRI, based in UK Here’s what the email I got looked like so you can see the wording: We sent you this […]

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More “How Not To Get Scammed” (emails with attachments, phishing…)

Posted by jadmin on May 14, 2024 in How-To, News, Scams, Tips, Uncategorized |

This is a copy of another recent email I came across in my SPAM folder. It got filtered out as Spam but I am copying the text just in case for people to see what these types of email phishing scams look like. Everything is fake. It is designed to appear as an invoice from […]

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HOW TO NOT GET SCAMMED (Phishing Email Attachment from “Geek Squad”)

Posted by jadmin on April 17, 2024 in How-To, Mac, News, Scams, Tips |

How do you not get scammed? You have to have your antenna up at all times. For example: This is a typical Phishing attempt, an email you get which has an attachment. This is one I actually got which I am showing so if you see something like this, you are aware of it and […]

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Fake Emails: Phishing campaign targets Google Docs, Drive users

Posted by promacnyc on March 17, 2014 in Tips |

I’ve been seeing this a few times now where I get an email with a Client’s name or someone I know with subject heading like: “”I’ve Shared A Document” or “Important Doc File”. The body of the email has a link to click on. It looks legit – BUT ITS NOT! DON’T CLICK ON IT. They are […]

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What is “Cloud Computing”?

Posted by promacnyc on July 31, 2011 in Backup, Mac, News, software, Software Updates, Tips, Uncategorized |

You may heard the term ‘Cloud Computing’ in the news lately. What does it mean? This image is a good illustration. The term ‘Cloud Computing’ refers to an imaginary “cloud in the sky” – actually servers on the internet – a theoretical “place” where you upload your files to, then access them wherever you are. This […]

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TIP Of The Day (#1) How To Send A Link

Posted by promacnyc on January 13, 2010 in How-To, Mac, Tips |

Here’s the first of what I hope will be a “Tip Of The Day” series Jed’s TIP #1 Some clients of mine, don’t realize how easy it actually is to send someone a LINK (to a web site) in an email message. For example, one client would cut and pasted an entire NY Times article (the […]

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Email…Gmail vs. AOL

Posted by promacnyc on July 28, 2009 in News |

It always is a bit surprising to me how many of my clients still use AOL for their email after all this time (and for example, have not switched to Gmail…. a far, far superior email service in every way) This seems to be a common holdover from the time, many years ago now, when AOL […]

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