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Help Users Recognize And Defend Home Networks Against Spam, Spyware, Scams, Pop-ups And Cookies
White Papers This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Home Networking Simplified, helps end users protect their home networks against spam, spyware, pop-ups, scams and cookies. In addition to viruses and worms, users must protect their home networks from a...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Valentine's Day Brings Spam And Scams, Warns FBI
Blog Meanwhile, web safety campaign Get Safe Online is warning of more Valentine's Day scams - this time the dangers of online dating. It's a perennial security story -- spammers, scammers, and those seeking to promulgate malware will adjust campaigns...
[February 14, 2008, 10:50]
International Push To Fight High-tech Scams
News The seminar, organised by the UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT), is aimed at combating marketing scams such as the 419 fraud; emails that falsely claim the recipient has won a valuable prize and demand a fee in exchange; and text messages that con...
[February 27, 2004, 16:35]
Europe Plans Crackdown On Email Scams
News The new measures will tackle cross-border scams including email scams and illegal prize draws; misleading advertising and pressure selling; phone scams based in other EU countries; and timeshare and holiday-club rogue traders.
[January 3, 2007, 7:32]
FSA Nets 28 UK Web Scams In One Day
News The one day investigation into Internet scams unearthed 28 sites in the UK and 35 Web sites overseas that appeared to offer unauthorised investment advice and investment deals, or advertised investment products, in breach of the law.
[July 3, 2001, 7:28]
Secrets Of Stock Spam Scams Revealed
News So-called "pump-and-dump" scams, where spammers send out false stock information to encourage people to buy shares, were found to both increase the traded volume and artificially boost the share price, said researchers from the Technische...
[June 30, 2006, 12:50]
US Spam Scams Slammed
News The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which is leading a coordinated "Internet sweep" for people who send spam scams and host fraudulent Web sites, has come up with some alarming results. We're taking a snapshot to try and find out who is behind...
[February 24, 2005, 14:50]
Banks Still Top Targets For Phishing Scams
News Financial services companies remain the most frequent targets of online phishing schemes, according to the latest figures released by an organisation working to fight the scams. The APWG said that the number of Web sites supporting the scams has...
[January 21, 2005, 8:30]
Tis The Season Of Christmas Scams
News Phishing scams combine spammed email messages and fraudulent Web sites to trick people into giving up sensitive information. Holidays are an excellent hook for scams," Klein said. While eBay is a known phishing target, scams that involve charities...
[December 22, 2005, 9:10]
Holiday Shopping Scams Targeting Mobile
Blog Holiday Shopping Scams Targeting Mobile Every year on this day there is a rise in scams and malware directed at holiday shoppers and this year is no exception. While iPhone scams are hot right now just in time for holiday shopping, mobile snoopware...
[November 26, 2007, 19:58]
How To Avoid Falling For Text Message Scams
News On Tuesday the UK government launched a campaign to crack down on the worrying rise in high-tech scams. Such scams can take the form of text messages that tell recipients they have won a large cash prize and must call a premium rate number to claim...
[November 12, 2002, 14:55]
12 Steps To Avoid Phishing Scams
White Papers Phishing scams have evolved from being a simple annoyance to a dangerous problem for IT departments as business users expose sensitive data when being duped by phishing scams while using corporate computer systems.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Man Accused Of £1.5m Web Scams
News A UK man on trial this week over alleged death threats had separately obtained over £1.5m through a series of online scams, the court heard on Tuesday. Peterborough Crown Court was told by the prosecution that Peter Francis-Macrae had tricked...
[October 12, 2005, 10:40]
Secrets Of Stock Spam Scams Revealed
Talkback I recommend closing down your email account and setting up a new one. Auto-Mailers can cause a lot of problems. Some of my clients have actually had their internet service shut down by their ISP due to being infected by Auto-Mailers.
[October 15, 2006, 0:43]
Britons Fall Victim To Internet Scams
News Five percent of those surveyed said they had lost money to scams, such as rogue diallers, 419 scams - which claim to offer the recipient the chance to share a large amount of cash, in exchange for their bank details and often a 'handling fee...
[May 3, 2005, 11:45]
Secrets Of Stock Spam Scams Revealed
Talkback I receive a whole bunch of these stock scam spam mails every single day - I get far more of those than any other form of spam. Since I'm not in the USA nor even remotely interested in investing money I don't have, it is really annoying.
[July 16, 2006, 22:58]
UK Police Crack Down On Billion-pound Internet Scams
Talkback I was nearly a victim of crime via e bay when I was offered second chance on a plasma screen TV for £860 from someone who contacted me outside of e bay, by e mail. When I approached a local travle agent to send the money using my credit card, I...
[October 29, 2005, 12:08]
Valentine's Day Brings Spam And Scams, Warns FBI
Blog Comment "It also doesn't hurt to remind people that risky electronic intercourse can leave you with a virus.akin to a certain real-life scenario! Perhaps one of the improvements of Windows Vista over XP is that it asks for your confirmation before...
[February 14, 2008, 19:44]
Secrets Of Stock Spam Scams Revealed
Talkback I've started getting undelivered mail reports saying that I have tried to send these spam mails and that they have been rejected or that the recipients don't exist. How have they been able to get into my account to send spam in my name when my...
[September 30, 2006, 17:43]
Secrets Of Stock Spam Scams Revealed
Talkback I hate to tell you this, but this problem is NOT unique to the United States. We in the United States also cannot block this garbage, nor do we encourage it's origination. So those of you OUTSIDE the United States, please stop your whining.
[September 27, 2006, 21:54]
