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Cisco reports rise in text-message scams
News People who are resistant to email phishing scams are falling victim to fake text messages, according to a security report released on Tuesday by Cisco. Text-message scams are on the rise, particularly fake messages that appear to come from a...
[July 15, 2009, 15:28]
Facebook, Twitter hit by fresh phishing scams
News Some days as much as three scams will spread throughout the site (possibly even more). Both Facebook and Twitter experienced phishing attacks on Thursday. A new scam hit Facebook users that, like others in recent weeks, sends them to a website that...
[May 22, 2009, 15:33]
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]
Business Software Alliance tackles online scams
News The trade group served more than 48,000 'takedown' notices related to BitTorrent files in the first half of this year and says BSA members lost an estimated $525m (£300m) in sales as a result of peer-to-peer unlicensed-software sharing, according...
[October 6, 2008, 14:57]
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]
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]
Economic turmoil sees rise in online scams
News As the economy worsens and more people are laid off, online fraud and financial scams are rising, security experts say. Many of the scams lure people in with promises of quick and easy money. For instance, there has been a marked increase in money...
[November 21, 2008, 8:22]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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.
[May 19, 2006, 1:00]
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]
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]
OFT can't cope with internet scams
News Mike Haley, head of the OFT Scambusters team, said on Wednesday that his team's expertise lay in dealing with "real world" trading scams, rather than online fraud. We have a lack of skilled and competent investigators in the area to make a dent in...
[January 25, 2007, 11:32]
Secrets of stock spam scams revealed
Talkback I too have been recieving irritating stock spam mail. There seems to be no way to block it as a different sender, with a thereafter non-existant address and subject title is used each time - presumably computer generated.
[August 24, 2006, 11:44]
Secrets of stock spam scams revealed
Talkback At least every 5-year old in the UK knows that to pluralise a word simply involves adding an S to it. One THING two THINGS. Simple, really. So take your gut's and stick them where ther Bush don't shine.
[October 25, 2006, 23:36]
Secrets of stock spam scams revealed
Talkback I do not live in the UK, but many of these spam stock emails are coming from outside the US which is where I do reside. Within the past 8 months I have received hundreds of these annoying emails with absolutely no interests in reading them.
[August 18, 2006, 15:34]
