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Internet address scam shut down
Talkback I am looking for a site to publicise a foreign exchange scam, the web address having been shut down. I have names of individuals involved.
[January 2, 2004, 9:28]
Internet address scam shut down
News The decision by a federal judge in Chicago last week followed an investigation by the FTC, British law enforcement and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body charged with administering domain names.
[March 12, 2002, 9:56]
Yahoo! victim of Net credit card scam
News The second credit-card scam to hit the Net in as many weeks was mass E-mailed to users of the Internet on Thursday. Because the scam used an Internet service provider with which Yahoo! With spelling and grammar errors, the latest E-mail scam is...
[December 15, 1997, 12:03]
Email scam defrauds Net users
News Fraudsters have launched an online scam designed to steal bank account information from unwitting Internet users, after promising them $200 (£137) in a fake email. This scam exploits one of many methods for transferring funds over the Internet...
[January 29, 2001, 15:39]
Police crack down on US Net fraud ring
News Most of the fraud artists are in their 20s, and one of the suspects arrested was already on probation for another Internet scam, Nicolella said. About 175 people fell for that part of the scam, according to one source familiar with the investigation.
[February 21, 2001, 13:25]
Britons fall victim to Internet scams
News Half of the UK's Internet-using community have been targetted with some form of online scam, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Phishers are becoming increasingly sophisticated at spoofing legitimate brands and it is often difficult to spot...
[May 3, 2005, 11:45]
Barclays scam email exploits new IE flaw
News Banking scam emails are nothing new, but the use of the IE flaw represents an innovation, according to Internet services firm Netcraft, which analysed the Barclays message. The Barclays scam email appears to come from the bank, and directs...
[January 12, 2004, 11:40]
US authorities to put pinch on site hijackers
News The FTC declined to comment beyond a brief press release announcing it would reveal a "new Internet scam" that has become the agency's 100th Internet case. The agency will, however, be bringing in "victims" affected by the scam to speak at its news...
[September 16, 1999, 9:39]
Tis the season of Christmas scams
News With Christmas just days away, shoppers rush around late into the night, radio stations blare seasonal tunes - and cybercriminals busily try to scam unsuspecting targets. The holidays are a great reason to send people email to try to scam them into...
[December 22, 2005, 9:10]
Copycat phisher arrested for Smile attacks
News Officers from the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit arrested the man, from Lytham St Anne's in Lancashire, after Smile, the Internet bank operated by The Co-operative Bank, reported the scam to the NTHCU in March.
[April 29, 2004, 12:30]
FBI: Auction fraud tops Net scam list
News The so-called Nigerian Letter, a scam in which an alleged Nigerian official seeks help moving money between bank accounts, accounted for almost 15.5 percent of the complaints. The IFCC said it didn't have a total figure on how much consumers lost...
[April 10, 2002, 14:52]
Fraudsters continue to target eBay
News The latest scam involved emails that asked recipients to log on to a Florida-based Web site, ebayupdates.com, and re-enter financial data for eBay, said Dean White, the Asia-Pacific coordinator of a US group, SANS Institute Internet Storm Centre.
[December 11, 2002, 15:53]
Phishing attacks up 20 percent in June
News Jack Clark, technology consultant at antivirus firm McAfee, said the number of phishing attacks is expected to keep growing because more people are using the Internet and the phishers have started making money from the scam.
[August 4, 2004, 16:35]
Microsoft breaks monthly patching habit
News Known as the phishing flaw, the problem allows scam artists to forge the address in the Internet Explorer browser's address bar to display an address different from the actual site to which the user was being sent.
[February 3, 2004, 8:20]
How I Earn £14,246 A Week
Blog However, the scam is that parcels can be sent through the post and money can be exchanged, thus laundering the cash. A new and emerging fraud scam has been exposed by ITV1’s ‘Tonight programme’ (on television Monday 27th October).
[October 27, 2008, 7:15]
Back to school for spam victims
News The Web site that linked to the scam, which has already been shut down, was hosted on a .de Internet address. Russian spammers are targeting thousands of Australians with a work-from-home Web training scam, security experts warned on Monday.
[November 1, 2004, 13:24]
Identity thieves strike eBay
News Even savvy users have a hard time telling the difference between scam spam and the real deal. Thousands of domain names with the word "ebay" have been registered, and Web-savvy scam artists can dress up a Web address to look like it resolves to...
[November 22, 2002, 14:45]
Phishing hole 'left open' by banks
News But with cross-site scripting, people are more likely to fall for the scam, because the URL actually belongs to a real business. The scam involved a phishing email that exploited a scripting program on the bank's Web site to build an imitation site...
[March 15, 2005, 7:55]
PayPal fixes phishing hole
News PayPal has fixed a flaw in its Web site to block a sophisticated scam designed to obtain sensitive data from members, the payment service said on Friday. The company has no information on how many people may have fallen victim to the scam, she said.
[June 19, 2006, 9:55]
Criminal gangs blackmail Web users with porn threat
News The 'child pornography' threat email follows the pattern of a scam of a few years ago where the criminals would threaten to take over a network or install a virus on it unless they were given $20 or $30.
[July 22, 2004, 16:30]
