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£3m Online Holiday Scam Exposed
News The money raised from the 1,200 or so victims of the scam was traced to the bank accounts of a company called CCH International Limited, based in Gibraltar and Spain. The six companies involved in the scam have now been wound up by the High Court...
[December 13, 2002, 13:43]
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]
UK Man Arrested In Phishing Probe
News UK Police have arrested a 21-year-old man they suspect of running a phishing scam that targeted customers of online bank Smile. The UK’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was tipped off about the phishing scam in January by Smile, which is the...
[February 7, 2005, 14:10]
Barclays Scam Email Exploits New IE Flaw
News The Barclays scam email appears to come from the bank, and directs customers to a site posing as Barclays' online banking Web site, ibank.barclays.co.uk. Barclays is in no way involved with this scam email and the Web site does not belong to us...
[January 12, 2004, 11:40]
Phishing Scam 'most Devious Ever'
News Typically, phishing scam emails appear to have been sent from the victim's bank, and contain a link to a fake version of the bank's Web site and instructions to log on to the site to verify their credentials with the bank.
[March 3, 2004, 8:00]
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]
Phishing Hole 'left Open' By Banks
News The scam involved a phishing email that exploited a scripting program on the bank's Web site to build an imitation site that attempted to trick customers into sharing their personal data. But with cross-site scripting, people are more likely to...
[March 15, 2005, 7:55]
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]
Scam Tricks Users Into 'stealing'
News The intricate scam, which ends up at a Latvian Internet-only bank, can net the scam artist over $1,000 (£620) each time and leave the victim holding stolen merchandise. That's how at least one scam artist is playing the online credit card game...
[January 26, 2000, 9:24]
Brazillian Police Arrest Suspects In £45m Online Fraud
News They used phishing techniques to make the scam work," said Joviel Britto, a spokesman for the Brazilian Federal Police. Police said that hackers sent identity theft emails, a technique known as phishing, to online banking customers in a bid to...
[October 21, 2004, 16:10]
ABN Amro Systems Compromised
News A two-factor authentication system operated by Dutch bank ABN Amro has been compromised and money stolen from four customers who fell victim to a phishing scam. Barclays bank on Wednesday said it would send 500,000 chip and PIN devices to its...
[April 19, 2007, 18:14]
Nigeria Renews Efforts To Stop 419 Scammers
News Now prevalent online, the 419 scam was originally conducted by post, and then by letter. The notorious email scam is also known as the 419 scam -- 419 being the part of the Nigerian criminal code that relates to fraud.
[November 27, 2003, 10:10]
Bank Customers 'becoming More Phishing-savvy'
News This is due to growing awareness about phishing scam emails, which are sent by criminals pretending to be officials from banks or online shops, APACS believes. A recipient of a phishing email will typically be asked to click on a Web link that...
[March 23, 2005, 17:20]
EBay Scammer Jailed
News At the age of 17, he was found by the authorities to be involved in another internet scam -- taking over $1m off punters to use in online betting after telling them he had tips that 'couldn't lose'. The young man was also found guilty of bank fraud...
[June 16, 2004, 11:45]
Online Gamblers Targeted By Scams
News It warned them that a social-engineering scam was attempting to direct users to a site that would drop a Trojan horse onto their computer, effectively surrendering control of the PC to an unknown third party.
[May 19, 2006, 11:05]
Auction Sites Warn On The Danger Of Wire Transfers
News This year, scam artists have broken into dozens of eBay accounts by using automated programs to guess the passwords. Scam artists have been using several different variations on the wire transfer scam.
[July 4, 2002, 14:18]
Hackers Attack EBay Accounts
News Geary is only the latest victim of an increasingly popular scam on eBay. Instead of establishing their own accounts on eBay, many scam artists are using a so-called dictionary attack to break into reputable sellers' accounts.
[March 26, 2002, 10:41]
EBay Gets Tough On Online Fraudsters
News eBay plans to expand its new buyer-protection programme and take a number of other measures to combat fraud on its site, which has become a popular target for online scam artists. The system works by automatically charging the buyer's credit card...
[June 30, 2003, 8:29]
Web Vigilantes Launch Attacks
News The criminals who operate the 419 scam, also known as the advance fee fraud, send out emails, letters and faxes asking for help to recover a large sum of money from a bank, in return for a share of the loot.
[February 10, 2005, 12:20]
A Year Ago: US To Spur Third-world E-commerce
News It also calls for minimising government regulation of the Internet access industry and calls on the Federal Trade Commission to aggressively pursue online scam artists. The U.S.is seeking financial contributions from foreign governments, private...
[December 1, 1999, 6:06]
