We want to make you aware of a nasty and disruptive WhatsApp scam that is affecting people in the local area, and spreading quickly. What is the WhatsApp “Account Takeover” Scam? Scammers attempt to take control of your WhatsApp account by tricking you into sharing a 6-digit verification code. It typically works like this: You receive a message from a trusted contact asking you to send them a code, or claiming a code was sent to you “by mistake”. WhatsApp then sends you a

Did you know that you can access your WhatsApp and Messenger accounts from your computer? This is a convenient way of sending and receiving messages without having to deviate away from your screen, and makes it easy to compose longer messages too. Messages sent and received sync to your messaging account seamlessly so they will be reflected on your phone when you pick it up again. Download the desktop apps from here: WhatsApp Windows: https://www.whatsapp.com/download/ Mac:.

Did you know you can easily insert emojis in to your emails, documents, messages, and elsewhere using your Windows computer? To access the Windows 10 emoji picker, press either of the following two shortcut combinations: Windows Key + Period / Full Stop (.) Windows Key + Semicolon (;) Typing either of these keyboard shortcuts will bring up an inline emoji picker, complete with search field. To find an emoji, you can either scroll through the list, use the category icons at th

There are a number of places who will buy your old tech gadgets for cash (or a discount off new kit). Be careful though. Many of these give you a headline price online, but then when you send your device in they revise their offer to a much-reduced price, citing some minor imperfection. We have used O2 Recycle on a number of occasions and find the prices offered to be fair and the service to be generally reliable. O2 Recycle Trade in mobiles, tablets, wearables and more. Pric

Con men are nothing new. They’ve been nicking the tiles of our roofs since, well, since we started putting tiles on roofs. No matter how many people there are in the world, it seems to be a biological fact that a proportion of them will be inveterate scammers. But the Internet has given them the power and sophistication to pull the wool over people’s eyes in ever more dastardly ways. Over three million scams succeed each year in the UK alone, costing an estimated £3.3billion.

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