Tech Project Sweeps For Net Scammers
News This rise had imposed an increasing burden on ASIC's enforcement resources, Inman said, citing the outcomes of ASIC "Surfdays" whereby staff logged on to the Internet for several hours over a couple of days in a bid to track down fraudsters and...
[February 3, 2003, 11:51]
Psychiatrist 'gave Millions To Email Scammers'
News An eminent US psychiatrist has fallen victim to Internet scammers who have defrauded him of millions of dollars, according to reports on Friday. Guy Gottschalk, the son of 89-year-old psychiatrist Dr Louis Gottschalk, has reportedly filed papers in...
[March 3, 2006, 11:55]
US Charges Email Scammers
News A quartet of suspected email scammers — three of them Nigerian citizens — could face scores of years in prison if convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.
[March 24, 2006, 9:45]
China Becoming Haven For Phishers
News A report from the official Chinese news agency Xinhua said that most of the sites are owned by people outside of China and that the country had become a haven for scammers. Phishing emails lure victims into parting with confidential information...
[March 29, 2005, 12:35]
Microsoft 'lends Security Expertise' To Nigeria
News Ribadu admitted that Nigeria has been slow to tackle the problem of scammers, but claimed that the country now accepts the gravity of the problem. At the moment it is pursuing around 50 legal cases against Internet scammers.
[October 14, 2005, 17:50]
Police Maintain Uneasy Truce With Cybervigilantes
News Groups such as Artists Against 419 and the Internet Fraud Advisory offer advice and tools on how to avoid scammers and list suspected fraudulent websites. Others, such as 419 Eater, engage in scam baiting — deliberately trying to waste scammers...
[January 17, 2007, 14:37]
Phishing, Phaxing, Vishing And Other Identity Threats: The Evolution Of Online Fraud
White Papers Fraudsters and scammers are finding increasingly devious ways of stealing financial and other confidential information. Anything they can learn about online credentials can seriously undermine an organization's profile, bring considerable risk to...
[June 30, 2008, 14:38]
IE Bug Provides Phishing Tool
News The problem will make it easier for scammers to trick Internet users into divulging personal details through "phishing scams", where emails purporting to come from the victim's Internet banking provider or another such site encourage them to re...
[December 10, 2003, 8:50]
EU To Launch Scam Crackdown
News Earlier this month the OFT launched its 2007 Scams Awareness Month to raise consumer awareness about increasingly sophisticated techniques used by scammers. The fraudsters are clever — taking advantage of different legal systems across the EU to...
[February 26, 2007, 15:06]
Automated Phishing On The Rise, Experts Say
News Security experts from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) have witnessed massive increases in the number of phishing Web sites, which they say suggests that scammers are improving their techniques.
[November 23, 2004, 12:05]
The Week In Review: The Kids Are All Wired
News Our mail boxes at ZDNet UK are jammed with such missives daily, and our colleagues over at silicon.com recently baited one of the scammers (see story here), which led us to think of a solution: what if we all started replying to these scam emails...
[February 21, 2003, 16:48]
Tis The Season Of Christmas Scams
News In one example, scammers crafted an email that looks like it came from eBay. Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy," said Melih Abdulhayoglu, chief executive of Comodo Group, a provider of Web site security certificates.
[December 22, 2005, 9:10]
Back To School For Spam Victims
News Scammers are getting more sophisticated in the way they attempt to steal money from innocent Internet users," he added. The fraudsters are offering a free two-week Web learning programme, purporting to be held by financial services company Credit...
[November 1, 2004, 13:24]
Google Used As Bait In Phishing Scam
News Scammers have used Google's well-known name before in their schemes. Fraudsters are using a promise of a $400 prize from Google as bait in a new phishing scam aimed at stealing credit card data, a security expert has warned.
[November 10, 2005, 9:50]
Fraudsters Catch On To The Net's 'long Tail'
News The study, released on Monday, showed that the number of brands under attack from phishing was up 20 percent from June and 12 percent from the previous record in May, indicating that scammers are no longer content to exploit only the best-known...
[September 12, 2006, 12:20]
EBay Gets Tough On Online Fraudsters
News Scammers had used that feature to find relatively inactive members who were unlikely to check their accounts often, making them ideal targets, he said.eBay also plans to crack down on deadbeat buyers starting next month by limiting the number of...
[June 30, 2003, 8:29]
US Tops Phishing League
News According to an Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) report on January's phishing activity, 32 percent of scammers' Web sites were hosted in the United States. There is an incorrect assumption that scammers put up their machines in the Far East or...
[February 28, 2005, 12:55]
Web Vigilantes Launch Attacks
News Some of these scammers have now graduated to running their own fake banking Web sites. Internet vigilantes have launched a 48-hour bandwidth attack against spammers who defraud people online. The 419 Flash Mob, supported by Artists Against 419, has...
[February 10, 2005, 12:20]
