New email spam scam

These might be appearing in your Inbox, not your Spam folder, so be aware.

Fake Best Buy Geek Squad invoices.

I've received two that were properly flagged as spam. It says that your Geek Squad subscription is about to renew and $419 will be charged to your card.

This hits on some good psychological pain points. It's a good-sized chunk of money, it's possible that you may have a Geek Squad subscription for computer support, and there's the time pressure element.

But they always have at least two tells: they don't have your name on the 'subscription invoice' and they always originate from an odd email address, perhaps Gmail. NEVER call the phone number on this 'invoice' as that could easily get sold to other scammers, just delete this crap and be done with it.

An interesting international power adapter if you travel outside of your home space

I just backed this Kickstarter, ordering two of these puppies. The most common power adapter for international travel is just a plastic block with plugs that slide in and out to give you AC power. It probably adjusts the voltage for whatever country you're from.

This device is quite cool. It does the plug conversion for you, but it also has USB-A and C fast charge outlets! So theoretically when you travel, you can leave all your little adapters at home and just plug in to this device and charge five or six devices at the same time!

It's not hugely expensive at about $65 for one, I'm backing for two and a couple of cables. My thought is to keep one in my backpack and have the other so we'll have two adapters for international travel.

The Kickstarter is open for another two weeks, they're expecting to ship in July.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iblockcube/swift-the-smallest-120w-gan-12-in-1-travel-adapter