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Scottish law firm hit by malicious email hoax

A Scottish law firm is counting the cost of a damaging hoax email that someone has sent to thousands of addresses, purporting to be... Read more

7 March, 2003 by Tony Hallett

Worm sneaks ride with 1 June hoax

Just when you thought it was safe to ignore the sulfnbk.exe hoax email, another one surfaces; this one carrying a dangerous payload Read more

5 June, 2001 by Rachel Konrad

Hoax email virus victims seek fix

People duped by a hoax email into deleting a harmless but useful file from their Windows-based... Read more

1 June, 2001 by Rachel Konrad

Hoax email goads users into deleting harmless files

A hoax email warning people that their PCs may contain a virus called sulfnbk... Read more

30 May, 2001 by Matt Loney

'Murder' email lands lawyers in trouble

A hoax email, concocted by a trainee solicitor, results in disciplinary action after being... Read more

23 March, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Cambridgeshire DDoS suspect nicked

Hoax email still in the wild though... Cambridgeshire Police have confirmed they have... Read more

9 December, 2003 by Jo Best

Mobile Virus ACE-? ? Is The Hoax That The Hoax Is The Hoax?

...this virus in USA now.” Symantec supposedly researched/archived this as a hoax email back in 1999, but here we are in 2007 and the... Read more

8 June, 2007

Manchester police call for backup after cyberattack

...was deluged with thousands of calls from people who had received the hoax email, although the culprit was eventually tracked down and arrested Read more

12 July, 2005 by Andy McCue

Manchester Police come under cyberattack

...police, which was deluged by thousands of people who had received the hoax email, although the culprit was eventually tracked down and arrested Read more

3 May, 2005 by Andy McCue

Man charged with iPod email hoax

...saw the Cambridgeshire police switchboard flooded with calls last week, after a hoax email told recipients their credit cards had been charged £399.95 for... Read more

9 December, 2003 by Jo Best

Prime minister gets email - but don't expect a reply

...minister to become an email user. During his campaign, Ireland created a hoax email address [tony-blair@prime-minister.co.uk] and sent messages to... Read more

21 August, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

Antivirus virus on the loose

...one for quite a while. It is more usual to receive a hoax email claiming an existing, necessary file is a virus, such as the... Read more

20 January, 2003 by James Pearce

IM users hit by widespread 'social hack'

...reversal to the usual form of socially engineered virus, last May a hoax email was passed on by well-meaning people warning recipients that their... Read more

20 March, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

2001: Email misdemeanours

...of days later, a London law firm was reprimanded for circulating a hoax email announcing the murder of a company secretary. The internal memo asked... Read more

31 December, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

MSN: Hotmail 'forwarding' message a hoax

...country manager, Niko Walraven, was that the company was aware of the hoax email. Microsoft's MSN Internet runs the Hotmail service. "MSN takes its... Read more

23 August, 2001 by Ravind Ramesh

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