SMS Fraud

Companies spy on your email with invisible images – here’s how to stop them

Chris Smith, www.msn.com   If you’re getting marketing emails in your inbox, you should know that the companies are likely using the messages to spy on you. They’re using a technology developed for email called tracking pixels (invisible images) which lets companies analyze how and when you’ve interacted with their emails. They can then use […]

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Strange text from a wrong number? It’s probably a scam

So-called wrong number scams — in which con artists send out huge batches of eye-grabbing but innocuous texts — have become the introduction du jour for scammers looking for people to bilk for money. The scams — in which con artists send out huge batches of eye-grabbing but innocuous texts — have become the introduction […]

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