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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. The scam site then asks people to enter their banking details.
[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]
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. The Association of Payment and Clearing Services (APACS) has claimed that banking...
[March 23, 2005, 17:20]
UK man arrested in phishing probe
News The UK’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was tipped off about the phishing scam in January by Smile, which is the online banking arm of The Co-Operative Bank. UK Police have arrested a 21-year-old man they suspect of running a phishing scam...
[February 7, 2005, 14:10]
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]
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]
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. Brazilian federal police have arrested 53 suspects on charges of stealing £45m from online banking customers.
[October 21, 2004, 16:10]
Bank scam may originate from Russia
News The scam is reminiscent of the infamous "419" scam emails, where the scammer offers large sums of money in exchange for assistance with transferring funds out of Nigeria or other countries, but experts believe that the new frauds originate from...
[October 27, 2003, 14:10]
'Trojan' emails conceal theft tools
News Users are urged to download the latest Microsoft security patches for the well-publicised flaws in IE to protect themselves against the scam. The hackers can then record the victim's log-ins, passwords and PINs for online banking accounts the next...
[August 13, 2004, 15:15]
Why phishing is a business issue
News In fact, this is an old scam: Just mail out a bunch of invoices using a professional-sounding name, and many companies will just send a check. Forrester Research, 600,000 online banking users in the UK have turned their backs on online banking due...
[October 20, 2005, 15:15]
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. Use of both is supposed to make online banking identity verification more robust.
[April 19, 2007, 18:14]
Police maintain uneasy truce with cybervigilantes
News Others, such as 419 Eater, engage in scam baiting — deliberately trying to waste scammers' time, including have them take trophy photos of themselves to send to the scam baiters, in the hope it will limit scammer's activities.
[January 17, 2007, 14:37]
DeepNet 1.3 browser to contain anti-phishing features
News We are adding a scam blocker," said Lin. It will try to automatically detect scam Web sites, and if it decides it is a scam, it will warn the user. Last week a Trojan horse was found that can steal e-banking details when users log into legitimate...
[November 22, 2004, 12:40]
Businesses unaware of dangers of online crime
Blog A report published by CIFAS on Monday has revealed that one in five businesses has been a victim of an internet scam. Online banking fraud was rated at a relatively low 4.75, whereas credit card fraud was deemed to be a greater risk and rated at...
[October 13, 2009, 11:12]
Phishing shield makes money for ISPs
News Phishing is a prevalent online scam that uses fraudulent websites and spam email messages to trick people into giving up personal information such as credit card details and online banking credentials.
[March 28, 2007, 9:16]
Phishers improve bait as they target ISPs
News According to Jevans, the phishers are primarily after credit card information, so a typical scam email would tell the user that their credit card had expired or that the company was having a billing problem and needed the user to update their...
[February 5, 2004, 14:15]
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]
Microsoft update ignores spoofing hole
News The administrator of Openwares.org, who requested anonymity, said that the patch has been downloaded more than 125,000 times and he has received numerous emails from people thanking him, including a group of Earthlink users: "There was a phishing...
[January 14, 2004, 16:10]
eBay takes on phishers with email service
News According to a report from online privacy watchdog Truste, seven out of 10 people who go online have received phishing emails, and 15 percent of those have been duped into providing personal information.eBay has been assertive in fighting scam...
[January 5, 2005, 7:55]
Email scam seeks to fleece bank customers
News It uses a new twist on the traditional "phishing" technique of spamming thousands of users with a scam email that links people to a fake banking website to steal their personal and financial details. Citibank warned customers last month about a...
[September 2, 2003, 10:35]
