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Is this text message from DMV real or scam?

July 15th, 2025 | Posted by promacnyc in News | Scams | Tips - (Comments Off on Is this text message from DMV real or scam?)

Did you get a text message on your phone that says this or something like it? I got this text message recently, which frankly looks legitimate…. “New York Department of Motor Vehicles(DMV) Final Notice: Enforcement Penalties Begin on July 16. Our records show that as of today, you still have an outstanding traffic ticket. In …
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More “How Not To Get Scammed” (emails with attachments, phishing…)

May 14th, 2024 | Posted by jadmin in How-To | News | Scams | Tips | Uncategorized - (Comments Off on More “How Not To Get Scammed” (emails with attachments, phishing…))

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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New “Amazon” Scam

December 18th, 2020 | Posted by jadmin in News | Scams - (Comments Off on New “Amazon” Scam)

Dec 2020 Here’s some info about a scam I just discovered involving “Amazon” (not really!) I saw a “missed call” from the number below with a text message “New text message from (833) 941-1389” “A Message from Amazon Customer Service . bit.ly/3p5gHtI” Clicking the shortened bit.ly link takes one to some bogus page with this …
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How To Call Block A Phone Number (using a Panasonic phone or iPhone)

October 23rd, 2020 | Posted by jadmin in Fix | Hardware | How-To | Mac | Tips - (Comments Off on How To Call Block A Phone Number (using a Panasonic phone or iPhone))

How To Call Block A Phone Number (using a Panasonic phone) If you are getting annoying calls (robo-calls, unwanted sales calls, etc) one thing you can try is blocking the number so if they ever call back, it will ring once and stop. Here’s how to using a Panasonic phone; Other phones may use slightly …
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Mac Owners, “No, you’re not infected”

August 17th, 2009 | Posted by promacnyc in Mac | News - (Comments Off on Mac Owners, “No, you’re not infected”)

I’m posting a link to a piece in MacWorld thats very relevant these days about “scary looking websites”, especially as a followup to another recent blog post I put up about Scam-Ware and Scare-Ware “A reader says, ‘I used Yahoo to search for something and was sent immediately to the following [redacted] site. I believe …
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Scam: Online Anti-virus Scan REDUX

July 4th, 2009 | Posted by promacnyc in News - (Comments Off on Scam: Online Anti-virus Scan REDUX)

Client contacted me yesterday VERY concerned her Mac seemed to have software downloaded onto it indicating her computer was infected with multiple viruses. Bunch of bull, fortunately. 1) She was on a Mac, and the “scan” was about her “infected PC”. A very similar scenario is exactly detailed by this site here, “Scam: An Online …
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