EMAIL SCAM DETECTION REVEALED

EMAIL/TEXT SCAM MESSAGES DETECTED Easy Steps You Can Follow To Reveal The Sender…. (Please note that Google’s BlogSpot, the provider we use to publish this monthly column, has changed the allowable format style. So, if the column’s format looks a bit strange it’s due to Google and BlogSpot, not THE GADGETEER.) BOB SKIDMORE CORRESPONDENT © 2025 BOB SKIDMORE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED It seems that every day we receive more bogus emails, and now more recently, text messages, advising us that we owe money for services, and/or fines. Probably 99% of these are spam hoping that you will fall for their pitches and give up private information such as your credit, or debit card account details. Be advised that true official notifications such as I’ve described generally come by mail, or post in official envelopes and not by email, or texts. Also, official, real notifications come on official letterhead with the agency’s actual address and phone number which you can easily verify. You can verify the true sender of an email by putting your computer’s cursor over the sender’s info and clicking on it. You will now see the actual sender’s email address which will reveal that it’s probably fake. It will become obvious that this address bears no resemblance to an entity that the email claims to be from. In fact, many such phony addresses show up as being sent from foreign countries as indicated by the use of two-letter country ids. (DE-Germany; GB-UK; KR-So Korea) A current popular spam email claims to advise you that your Apple storage is full putting you at risk of all your photos and important data being erased.

So, verify the sender’s true email address as shown below:

These fraudsters are now reverting to the use of text messages to imply the same false information. They pose as agencies advising you that you have toll fines, or unpaid tickets and if not paid at once you will lose your driver’s license, in addition to being fined, etc. Once again, no official information such as vehicle type, license plate, state, city, or county information and date of violation is provided. Even your name and address are missing as is the location where the alleged violation took place. So, bottom line, verify such notices by contacting the official agency and not any agency information, email addresses, or phone numbers listed on the email, or text. Don’t be a sucker!!! Graphic credits: THE GADGETEER Bob Skidmore is a freelance writer, who may be contacted at bob.thegadgeteer.skidmore@gmail.com, or followed at twitter.com/bskidmore for the latest gadget industry news. He does not represent, or endorse any of the products he reviews and his opinions are solely his points of view and not those of the manufacturer, or any legal resource. The manufacturer generally supplies products and press releases at no cost for the articles and no other compensation is received. THE GADGETEER is highly selective as to products he feels worthy of review so as not to waste the reader’s time, thus the reason for many superior ratings. ## Check out Bob’s Social Media pages for up to the minute gadget news. Available at: bob-the-gadgeteer.bsky.social & https://twitter.com/bskidmore