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CRA refund via e-transfer or scam?

There’s a new phishing scam making the rounds. It’s a very legitimate looking email purporting to be an Interac e-transfer from the CRA. Hold off your enthusiasm: you don’t have a bonus return! The golden rule of whether to follow a link or open an attachment is are you expecting something from the sender? However, at this point in time many people are expecting a government refund. Many parents are

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Is this Spam? Part 2

Last week we sent an email to our clients giving them a heads up about CryptoLocker (the latest deadly computer virus), and a new virus coming through as a .tiff file. The email was intended to be a helpful pre-emptive strike as we regularly get emails from clients asking us to look at an email they’ve received and determine if it’s spam or a virus etc.. One of our fabulous

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Is This Spam?

Your bank, airline or other trusted vendor has emailed you an attachment or a link and asked you to check in, confirm login information or some other task? You’ve heard you’re not supposed to give out your password to emails that look legit but this is from your bank and they’re not asking for your password they’re asking you to click on this link and log into your account –

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e-literacy or techy-speak for the busy entrepreneur

Do you feel like you’re scrambling to keep up with all the new IT products, terms, viruses, hoaxes etc. and still you don’t know what’s being said by the kids or those hip seniors?  If you answered yes, then you’re not alone. Many people get so overwhelmed with the amount of new techy-speak out there that they shut down and stop taking it in.  The problem with this coping mechanism

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