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General cybersecurity awareness tips and best practices.

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Phishing: Messages Delivery Notification [Failure] | Fake Held-Mail Report From Your Own Address

· 18 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

You have (11) pending message(s) stopped by the mail server from delivering due to low bandwidth. The report comes from the recipient's own address, the same sender's fourth lure of the evening. It lists invoices, an order and shipping documents without a single sender, blames bandwidth, and carries the same mail login link.

Phishing: Your mailbox is full. | Fake Storage Warning From Your Own Address

· 16 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

You're out of storage and may not receive new emails. The warning comes from the recipient's own address, the same sender's third lure in 83 minutes. It names no mail service, calls the mailbox full while its own figures leave about 40 MB free, and carries the same mail login link.

Phishing: WARNING: [15] Messages Delivery Notification [Failure] | Fake Postmaster Notice From Your Own Address

· 15 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

The delivery of messages was stopped by your domain mail server. The notice comes from the recipient's own address, 39 minutes after the same operator's fake login alert. It names none of its 15 messages, blames a server named after an IP address that cannot exist, and carries the same link.

Phishing: Multiple unusual login attempts | Fake Mail Administrator Alert From Your Own Address

· 15 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

We noticed some unusual login activity with your account. The alert comes from the recipient's own address, signed by a Mail Administrator who never names a mail service. It calls one attempt multiple, dates it two hours after the alert itself, leaves the IP address blank, and links to a page dressed as a mail login on a 17-year-old travel-business domain.

Scam: Request for Project Price Offer | Carsten Steffen, a Buyer Whose Address Is Mostly a Billing Link

· 17 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

We are looking for pricing for an upcoming project and would want to confirm your availability to submit a quote. A request for a quote that names no project, no product and no company, signed by a procurement specialist who names no employer, and sent from an address that runs to 276 characters, most of them the tracking code from a billing email's link, at a domain with a home-care service's name.

Phishing: Update payment details | Fake OpenAI ChatGPT Payment Declined Notice

· 16 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

We couldn't process your ChatGPT subscription. Please settle the outstanding balance to keep your access active. The notice that says so is signed The OpenAI Team, but it comes from a webmaster address under a web host's temporary site name that no longer exists, names no account, no plan and no card, wears a logo that is not OpenAI's, and sends its payment button through a Google redirect that does not say where it leads.

Phishing: No. TAX/PEN/2026-1422 | Fake Income Tax Department Notice Hiding a ZIP From Scanners

· 23 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

Discrepancies have been identified during the review of your company's tax records. That sentence is almost all there is to the fourth draft of a forged Income Tax Department notice this archive has followed since August. Every section number, office, officer's name and amount that the earlier drafts quoted is gone; the 72-hour clock and the link remain. The link asks for a ZIP archive named like a PDF, on a name handed out under eu.cc, and when the recipient detonated it in a secured sandbox, the server sent back a page instead: Access Denied. Hosting/VPN IP detected. Only real users are allowed.

Fraud: Investment & Project Funding Opportunity | Alan Radford, a Retired Banker Who Names No Bank

· 19 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

I am a retired banker currently working as a consultant with established funding partners and financial institutions specializing in investment and project financing. A cold funding offer written to investors, borrowers and brokers at once: it names no bank, no partner, no institution, no firm and no figure, is signed with a name and nothing else, and came from a domain that its registrar has suspended.

Phishing: REMINDER: Your Domain <domain> has expired | Fake Squarespace Domain Renewal Notice

· 17 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

This is a friendly reminder that your domain <domain> is due for renewal on 29th Septemeber 2026. The notice that says so wears Squarespace's name spelled with a look-alike letter, comes from a domain registered in May that has no website, gives three different deadlines, and sends its renewal button through a Google short link — about a domain the public registry shows is paid up until 2033.

Phishing: 🔔 Action Required: Storage 100% Full | Fake Cloud Services Payment Notice, Five Weeks Later

· 19 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

We couldn't renew your Cloud storage subscription because your payment method needs to be updated. Five weeks after the copy analysed in August, the same storage-full template arrives again — word for word, subscription number included — with a new sender on a top-level domain that does not exist, a new numbered relay on a new Indonesian domain, a new Google Cloud Storage bucket, and the whole message turned into a single link.