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OFT Stops Domain-name Scam
Talkback please tell me how to domain name hack.ok bye my id is (bnb928@hotmail.com) hello how r u?
[June 4, 2004, 10:29]
OFT Stops Domain-name Scam
News The OFT received complaints that Swansea-based Internet Registrations Bureau Limited, trading as Euro Web Designs, was contacting firms and claiming an unnamed third party was interested in registering a domain name similar to their business name.
[December 2, 2003, 15:45]
Spamhaus Domain Name May Be Suspended
Talkback A scam to dodge first glance legal liability that any US judge should be well aware of if handling technology. Opt-in? That is a joke. Let us pay someone to opt-in for you. So the judge is most likely intentiionally miscarrrying justice.
[October 10, 2006, 21:55]
Software Giant Threatens Mikerowesoft
Talkback Beware the domain-name registry scam! You wanna know a scam? Try an inquiry for a domain name. I tried "microsoft.biz" a few months ago. At first it came back as available for like 500 buck a year. Then it sent me into some kind of loop so I had to...
[January 19, 2004, 23:34]
Identity Thieves Strike EBay
News In Fraser's case, that was the domain name "change-ebay.com", a scam Website where an unknown number of eBay users may have been tricked into handing over their eBay username and password. Thousands of domain names with the word "ebay" have been...
[November 22, 2002, 14:45]
Nominet Warns Of .co.uk 'invoicing Scam'
News Nominet went on to note that "these false invoices have been issued to owners of .com and .org domain names in the past, but Nominet UK has recently received information that this scam has spread to .co.uk names as well.
[July 28, 2004, 13:10]
Phishers Get Smarter
News The decline in the number of IP-only attacks, in which users are misdirected to a site that just has an IP address and so is less likely than one showing a domain name to deceive them, means phishers are getting better at disguising their scam...
[June 6, 2005, 13:20]
QXL Shuts Down Auction Scam On UK Site
News QXL has taken steps to shut down a scam operated by one of its members that included the sale of a 100-year-old deep sea diving suit on its UK site. QXL responded quickly once it was notified of the scam, and while the genuine eBay diving suit sale...
[June 20, 2003, 11:24]
Nominet Wins Battle Against Domain Scammers
News Two scam artists who duped victims with bogus demands for domain name registration have been fined AU$2.3m (£980,000) by an Australian court. Brad Norrish and Chesley Rafferty copied personal information from the Whois listings of Nominet, the dot...
[January 3, 2006, 13:45]
FTC Backs Better Facts For Domains
News Inaccurate 'WHOIS' data help Internet scam artists remain anonymous and stymie law-enforcement efforts," J. Beales' testimony comes as Congress considers a bill that would make it a federal crime to submit false data when registering a domain name.
[May 23, 2002, 15:59]
Man Accused Of £1.5m Web Scams
News According to The Times, at its height the .eu scam brought in £200,000 per month, while the domain registration letters accrued some £600,000. Peterborough Crown Court was told by the prosecution that Peter Francis-Macrae had tricked thousands of...
[October 12, 2005, 10:40]
Firefox Phishing Flaw Fixed
News That encoding scheme could enable an attacker to create a fake Web site for a phishing scam. Punycode is the encoding of Unicode strings into the limited character set supported by the Domain Name System and IDN.
[February 25, 2005, 8:15]
Phishing Flaw Found - But Not In IE
News That encoding scheme could enable an attacker to create a fake Web site for a phishing scam. There are now many ways to display any domain name on a browser, as there are a huge number of (character sets) which look very similar to Latin...
[February 8, 2005, 8:40]
Fatal Shooting Linked To Nigerian Email Fraud
News A Czech pensioner who had been defrauded by a criminal gang operating the notorious Nigerian email scam has been arrested on suspicion of shooting dead a Nigerian diplomat, according to reports. This scam claims to be a get-rich-quick scheme...
[February 20, 2003, 15:36]
Porn Trojan May Mark New Era For Mac Security
News For users that do fall for the scam, Intego claims its security software can remove the Trojan. If the user does install the Trojan, it changes the user's domain name system (DNS) settings and redirects them to phishing or a number of porn websites.
[November 1, 2007, 7:45]
Spam Levels Skyrocket In UK
News MessageLabs said that the so-called "Nigerian scam", also called the "419 scam", was the fastest-growing threat of the year. The scam messages typically request help in transferring a large amount of money out of Nigeria, and the victim is lured...
[November 25, 2002, 12:09]
Anti-spam Standard Catches On - With Spammers
News Phishing is the Internet scam that usually uses email designed to look as if it came from an official organisation, such as a bank or government agency, to elicit personal data. Phishing attacks are all about spoofing someone's domain name.
[September 9, 2004, 9:05]
UK Spammer Jailed Over £1.6m Scam
News The jury also heard that Francis-Macrae ran the scam from his bedroom at his father's three-bedroom terraced house in St Neots, Cambridgeshire. As reported last month, Francis-Macrae was accused of defrauding thousands of people by tricking them...
[November 17, 2005, 9:25]
Toxic Phishers Scam The Unwary
News Whereas all spam is not a scam, all attempts at phishing are scams, and the potential losses to corporations and consumers alike is stunning. Most of the phishing I've received pretends to come from PayPal and contains plainly visible URLs that...
[January 12, 2004, 14:55]
EBay Closes Password Option To Plug Hole
News EBay has also repeatedly warned members in recent months about another, more low-tech scam: fraudulent e-mail messages that purport to come from the company but link to bogus Web sites that ask for their passwords or other account information.
[April 3, 2002, 10:56]
