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Fatal shooting linked to Nigerian email fraud
News Early reports from the scene suggest that the pensioner had contacted the embassy to complain about being defrauded after falling for the infamous Nigerian email fraud, also known as the 419 email fraud, and losing his life savings.
[February 20, 2003, 15:36]
Email scammer sent down in $242m fraud case
Talkback The need of the hour The law regulates the social interests through the instrumentality of criminal law. There is a cross cultural inconsistency where living law must find answer to the new challenges and the courts are required to mould the...
[July 18, 2005, 19:31]
Phishing scam 'most devious ever'
News A prominent antivirus vendor has described the latest email fraud scheme targeted at Westpac bank customers as the most "devious" the company has ever encountered. I think this is not just a scam like the Nigerian scam -- this is actually direct...
[March 3, 2004, 8:00]
Six arrested over 'Nigerian email' frauds
News Six people were arrested in South Africa last weekend on suspicion of being involved in the infamous Nigerian email and letter fraud. South African police believe that the six people are part of an international fraud and drug-dealing cartel, and...
[May 21, 2002, 14:13]
Barclays scam email exploits new IE flaw
News As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our Web site, we are undertaking a period review of our member accounts," the scam email reads. For example, the source code of the Barclays fraud...
[January 12, 2004, 11:40]
Harsh sentences loom for spammers
News The commission retained in the final substantive draft a controversial proposal to compare spam offences to theft, fraud and property destruction for the purposes of sentencing. Critics of the sentencing commission's fraud analogy argue that not...
[April 15, 2004, 10:50]
Online fraud used as political football
News According to this spokeswoman, the police have seen a particular growth in the number of fake Web sites that are being used to carry out credit card fraud as well as email pyramid selling and tax cons.
[July 19, 2000, 16:39]
US charges email scammers
News A quartet of suspected email scammers — three of them Nigerian citizens — could face scores of years in prison if convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.
[March 24, 2006, 9:45]
Banks dismissive of 'phishing' losses
News Fraud losses experienced after the spam email and ghost Web site criminal attacks are not material compared to other forms of fraud," said Bell. However, Australia's main banking industry body, the Australian Bankers' Association (ABA), says losses...
[March 11, 2004, 8:15]
Alleged 'Seattle Spammer' arrested
News Soloway, owner of Newport Internet Marketing, was indicted by a federal grand jury on 23 May in a US District Court in Seattle on 10 counts of mail fraud, five counts of wire fraud, two counts of email fraud, five counts of aggravated identity...
[June 1, 2007, 15:49]
Fake bank email tries to con customers
News SpamTrap’s honeypots collected samples of the fraud between the hours of 1.45 a.m.and 8.10 a.m. The latest scam also resembled the others in the use of poor grammar, such as “Our new security system will help you to avoid frequently fraud...
[August 14, 2003, 13:05]
EBay gets tough on online fraudsters
News In addition, eBay said it's taking steps to deter fraud involving spoof email and eBay account takeovers, two growing problems in recent years. eBay plans to expand its new buyer-protection programme and take a number of other measures to combat...
[June 30, 2003, 8:29]
Toxic phishers scam the unwary
News With phishing, however, it's almost impossible to tell that the email is a fraud. If you get one and you've never joined PayPal, then you obviously know it's a fraud. To an undiscerning eye, the email bears the authentic trademarks, logos, graphics...
[January 12, 2004, 14:55]
FTC finally realises that spammers lie
News Harrington said spam puts the entire email system at risk, because the costs for fighting spam-related fraud and recouping lost productivity continue to rise. Spam is.a big fraud problem, one that really needs a law enforcement response...
[April 30, 2003, 10:48]
Microsoft 'lends security expertise' to Nigeria
News The organisation recently carried out a study in Lagos and found that up to 1000 people were involved in email fraud in the city, with the majority of it being carried out from Internet cafes. The term 419 comes from the part of the Nigerian...
[October 14, 2005, 17:50]
Anti-spam standard catches on - with spammers
News While SPF has been touted as a way to stop spam, the data has shown that the true value of the protocol is more about preventing fraud, said Scott Chasin, chief technology officer of the Denver company.
[September 9, 2004, 9:05]
Online crooks exploit WTC disaster
News The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) and the SpamCon Foundation warned on Wednesday that con artists are concocting online fraud to profit from the gruesome attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, which may...
[September 14, 2001, 9:34]
Spanish police smash £13m email scam
News If you have fallen victim to the fraud, you are encouraged to contact the Specialist Crime OCU Fraud Squad by email at 419@spring39.demon.co.uk. The Nigerian government has set up a unit in London to fight the fraud, but many people are still being...
[October 3, 2002, 11:56]
Bank customers 'becoming more phishing-savvy'
News APACS reported earlier this month that banks lost £12m through online fraud last year, as consumers fell victim to identity theft email scams. The Association of Payment and Clearing Services (APACS) has claimed that banking customers are waking up...
[March 23, 2005, 17:20]
Nigeria renews efforts to stop 419 scammers
News The notorious email scam is also known as the 419 scam -- 419 being the part of the Nigerian criminal code that relates to fraud. Back in May 2002, six people were arrested in South Africa on suspicion of involvement in the fraud.
[November 27, 2003, 10:10]
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