FROM THE DAVENPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT SCAM ALERT: Gmail Have a Gmail account? Watch out for scam emails posing as messages from Google. They may look like official notices about your account, but they carry malware. How the Scam Works: You receive an email that appears to be a message about your Google or Gmail account. One version of this scam informs you that You have exceeded your email limit quota. Another tells you that you have a deferred email. The text is hyperlinked in both, implying that you should click for more information. Dont do it! Clicking on the link will download malware to your computer. Once on your machine, it can hunt through your files for personal and banking information. This opens you up to the possibility of ID theft. These scam emails are particularly tricky because they look so real. They have details like Googles address in the footer. One version actually has a link to unsubscribe and change my notification settings. Be sure not to click these links because they also may contain malware.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 03:21:09 +0000