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Email scam seeks to fleece bank customers
News Citibank warned customers last month about a spam email scam that informed recipients their Citibank account would be suspended unless they accepted new terms and conditions. It uses a new twist on the traditional "phishing" technique of spamming...
[September 2, 2003, 10:35]
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]
Spanish police smash £13m email scam
News Spanish police have arrested eight people involved in a Nigerian-led email scam believed to have defrauded Internet users of up to 20m euros (£13m), according to Spain's El Mundo newspaper. The scam involves sending out mass emails that ostensibly...
[October 3, 2002, 11:56]
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. As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of...
[January 12, 2004, 11:40]
Email scam seeks to fleece bank customers
Talkback Contact me on this email address with your full names, address, chaujjoseph1@yahoo.com.hk if you are interested and more details will be provided to you about the Project. From: "Chau Joseph" chaujoseph4@msn.com
[October 4, 2005, 11:18]
Spanish police smash £13m email scam
Talkback hello.recently aone spam email came to a poor old age people of india stating that they had won a lottery and to claim prize money thay have to pay 3000 euros to the spedified bank people ,madrid, spain.the addresses are,[1]el premio lotteria...
[September 4, 2004, 20:35]
Spanish police smash £13m email scam
Talkback if there is real money with these lottery people,will any one or police or law people recover that money and send to these elderly couple ,who lost much money believing this as true.if any one or police wants to contact these elderly people,please...
[September 4, 2004, 20:47]
Barclays scam email exploits new IE flaw
Talkback "The bank is requesting users to forward fraud emails to internetsecurity@barclays.co.uk" nope, they have now pulled this link from their website and are bouncing all emails sent to that address.that didn't last long did it ?
[March 14, 2006, 7:45]
Barclays scam email exploits new IE flaw
Talkback If you have more than one bank account (which I have) why not use one of them for internet purchasing only and simply go on line and transfer the exact ammount needed to make the purchase. That way, surely, the account would be empty most of the...
[May 13, 2005, 23:29]
Barclays scam email exploits new IE flaw
Talkback just to let you know the email address that barclays has supplied has started refusing messages.
[September 24, 2006, 9:51]
Spanish police smash £13m email scam
Talkback To whom it my concern recentley i did recived a letter form company name GLOBAL SECURITY & FIANANCE S.A calle Pasaj \serrano 21,28002 Madrid, Spain They saying that i won a lottery from MUNDO LOTTO CMPANY , S.A and they gaved a Ref;2007893/03 and...
[November 21, 2003, 4:42]
Warning email hides scam
Talkback I just received a similar email that was purportedly from CITI cards. The format was essentially identical. The site that was hyperlinked was adversting.biz. I reported this to Spam Cop, and they traced it -- it was routed through Romania and Korea!
[April 7, 2004, 7:03]
Spanish police smash £13m email scam
Talkback I HAVE RECEIVED EMAIL FROM AV 5 CASTILLA MADRID STATING I HAVE WON $900,000 IN LOTTERY AND ASKING FOR 1750 EUROS BEFORE THIS CAN BE RELEASED.THIS APPEARS TO BE A SCAM AND iIWOULD LIKE TO PASS THIS TO THE AUTHORITIES IN MADRID OR INTERPOL BUT...
[July 23, 2004, 10:06]
Spanish police smash £13m email scam
Talkback i received an e-mail from euro million lottery international,they told that i won in this lottery.I sent them an e-mail askig information about what should i present to get the winning. I ve commit a mistake to send the copy of my documents...
[September 22, 2005, 11:54]
PayPal users targeted by email scam
Talkback I've already gotten such scam messages from "Pay Pal" and "Ebay" a few times. What I've done is to put in bogus info into the required fields and "0's" in the number fields and send it back. Also, I've given them comments such as "who do you think...
[October 22, 2003, 19:46]
PayPal users targeted by email scam
News PayPal subscribers are being targeted by a fraudulent email scheme designed to con them into handing over their personal information. Tricks involving bogus email posing as legitimate messages from eBay and PayPal are nothing new.
[March 10, 2003, 11:12]
Man arrested for tsunami email scam
News A man has been released on bail after being charged with stealing donations for tsunami relief. Twenty-four-year-old Matthew Schmieder, who is accused of sending emails purporting to be from a genuine aid organization, was arrested last week.
[January 18, 2005, 12:25]
Warning email hides scam
News An email purporting to be an advisory from Westpac to its customers about the dangers of online fraud is itself fraudulent, a bank spokeswoman confirmed today. The email, headlined "Online Banking: Protect Yourself from Internet Fraud" purports to...
[December 18, 2003, 9:50]
Facebook users targeted by Zeus banking Trojan
News Hot on the heels of one fake Facebook email scam, a researcher warned on Wednesday of another such campaign in which users of the popular social network are being tricked into revealing their passwords and downloading a Trojan that steals...
[October 29, 2009, 9:58]
Customised 'bomb attack' emails delivering malware
News Security experts warned on Monday of a new insidious email scam that features false information about a bomb explosion in the recipient's home town and leads to a malicious website. Attackers are using IP address geolocation techniques to tailor...
[March 17, 2009, 8:09]
