Two scams that are in the news hit our household today.<\/p>\n
The first was a sextortion<\/a> email. This one was a copycat though, since it had an an email address that was obviously found through a hack (vendorname@wellgolly.com), but they didn\u2019t have the password to prove that they\u2019d been monitoring the webcam.<\/p>\n And then I got to talk to a \u201cMicrosoft Security Team\u201d member that was informing me that the internet on my computer was illegal. I tried to get him to clarify what he meant by expressing confusion about how the internet was on my computer, since as far as I know, it is outside my house, but I wasn\u2019t able to string him along. And just for a point of reference, we only use Macs, iPads, and iPhones here, so there was no way that they detected \u201cIllegal internet activity on my Windows\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two scams that are in the news hit our household today. The first was a sextortion email. This one was a copycat though, since it had an an email address that was obviously found through a hack (vendorname@wellgolly.com), but they didn\u2019t have the password to prove that they\u2019d been monitoring the webcam. And then I … Continue reading Banner day for scamming.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}