Just a friendly reminder; for the love of all things holy, don't fall for this if it lands in your inbox ...

This ransomware just landed in mine (actually via the contact form here, which is just another laughable red flag; if they had all of this info they'd use a more direct line to me). It seems so blantantly obvious on so many levels that it's fake that's it's astonishing to think anyone would fall for it, but those gullible ones do apparently exist, hopefully our dear readers aren't among them.

There's another scam going around on Facebook, this time it's a Facebook scam promising to give away a $100 ("wow!") Starbucks card for free. Amazing huh? They just want to give away tons of money!

Well, as usual, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Take a look...

I give the scammers credit this one is clever. There is a new Malware going around that once it hits your computer it runs a scan on your hard drive for any torrent files. When it finds one (legal or illegal ones) you get one of these messages: