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A long while ago I met an incredibly creative guy called Lewis. We met when I worked in Apple retail and had many conversations about all sorts of things. He's just shared his digital work and it's incredible!! What an absolutely mind blowing inspiration he is.

Please like and share!

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556533798115

The Works of Lewis Phillipson This is just a place for me to show off stuff that I have made.

Identifying Scam Emails

Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

With scammers becoming more and more devious it is becoming harder and harder to identify a phishing email over a legitimate one.

I recently received a very legitimate looking email disguised as an invoice coming from Apple for an in app purchase of $16. Take a look at the attached screenshot and see for yourself how convincing this email may look! Luckily I noticed the word "visit" used twice which is not usually a mistake a company like Apple would make. I logged on to reportaproblem.apple.com and checked my invoices and no such purchase had been made!

Remember: NEVER give the following information via email..
Social Security Number
Mother's maiden name
Full credit card number
Credit card CCV code

This article has some great information on spotting phishing emails. It doesn't just apply to Apple users either. Lets become more digitally safe!

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204759

DID YOU KNOW....

USB 3.0 devices can cause havoc with your WiFi.

If you have a USB 3.0 hard drive connected to you computer, you might be experiencing WiFi problems due to the interference caused by the cable!!!

Many people use USB 3.0 hard drives for things like PS4/5 extended storage, Backup drives, Network storage and more.

Due to the "noise" created on a 2.4Ghz frequency, many USB 3.0 devices will drastically reduce your network connection speed. The only solution is to move the drive as far away from your router and computer as possible by the cable length. Either that or you can use a powered USB 3.0 drive and turn it off when not in use.

Just to give you an idea of the scale of the issue, these two photos were taken just minutes apart. One was while writing data to a USB 3.0 hard drive in the same room... the other is when that hard drive was powered off.

Quite the difference.

Can you help??...

A friend of mine is looking for I.T Trainers for mainly virtual training of Excel, and sometimes Word / PowerPoint / Ofiice 365.

Some full days 9:30am - 4:00pm and some half days.

Must be confident using MS Teams / Zoom to train business clients virtually.

Must be trustworthy and reliable as well as punctual.

If you think this may interest to you or anyone you know then please get in touch so that I may pass on details for a breif conversation.

Why not have a peek at some of the photos I took during recent Halfords Autocentre / McConechys Tyre Services Ltd training that has been taking place on behalf of SeventhWave

What a great bunch to work with!

visit the LinkedIn post below to find out more.

Seventh-Wave® - A People Training Company on LinkedIn: #betheseventhewave #management #leadership For the last three years we have supported training within Halfords Autocentres and MCCONECHY'S TYRE SERVICE LIMITED's garages has been added this year...

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