{"id":7753,"date":"2014-08-22T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T07:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/22\/beware-illegal-use-of-software-e-mail-scam\/"},"modified":"2014-08-22T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T07:59:59","slug":"beware-illegal-use-of-software-e-mail-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/22\/beware-illegal-use-of-software-e-mail-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware ‘Illegal Use of Software’ E-Mail Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just deleted a suspicious looking e-mail that claimed that I had to appear in court in Costa Mesa re: illegal use of software.  I of course did not open the zip file that would have invited a trojan horse or some other piece of malware into my motherboard.  One dead giveaway was that while Mesa is not far from here, Costa Mesa is in California.  I am a native Californian. (Which fact implies, by the way, that I am a native American!)<\/span><\/p>\n

It is hard to fool a philosopher. We are trained skeptics.  It is especially hard to fool a philosopher who knows his Schopenhauer.  Homo homini lupus, et cetera<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Never click on any link thoughtlessly.  To be on the safe side, delete suspicious looking e-mail from the subject line.  Don't even open them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another rule of mine is:  Never allow your body or soul to be polluted.  So if I get an e-mail with a nasty subject line, I delete it straightaway.  If the subject line is OK but the first line is hostile or nasty, same thing.  Go ahead, punk.  Make my day.<\/span><\/p>\n

More info here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Companion post:  Why are People So Easy to Swindle?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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I just deleted a suspicious looking e-mail that claimed that I had to appear in court in Costa Mesa re: illegal use of software.  I of course did not open the zip file that would have invited a trojan horse or some other piece of malware into my motherboard.  One dead giveaway was that while … Continue reading “Beware ‘Illegal Use of Software’ E-Mail Scam”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-advice","category-web-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}