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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. Christmas brings Yuletide spam, February brings Valentine's Day spam, and so on.
[February 14, 2008, 10:50]
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. The sweep is focused on Web site content and spam scams...
[February 24, 2005, 14:50]
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]
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]
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 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]
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 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]
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]
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 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]
Online crooks exploit WTC disaster
News Grieving people are flooding the Internet for solace and solidarity after Tuesday's terrorist attacks, but consumer advocates warn they may also find scams and spam online. The groups say that most online scams come in the form of unsolicited email...
[September 14, 2001, 9:34]
Spam growth increases during March
News The most common kinds of spam can best be described as the usual suspects, with porn, scams, financial services and product offers -- such as natural Viagra or weight loss pills -- all featuring heavily.
[April 9, 2003, 10:55]
OFT can't cope with internet scams
News Typical spam scams include offering false business opportunities, offering fake lists of email addresses for those wishing to spam, chain letters, work-at-home schemes, health and diet scams, and false investment opportunities.
[January 25, 2007, 11:32]
OFT gains powers to seize spammers' PCs
News I interpret that to include computers and servers used in spam [scams]. The OFT had previously been hampered in its efforts to deal with spam scams directed against other countries. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will gain the power to seize...
[February 28, 2007, 15:13]
Top-10 spam list: Still gullible
News The top 10 spam e-mails from the past month have been revealed--as has the fact that the online population is still gullible enough to be targeted with scams and phony promotions, which range from the downright implausible to the outright illegal.
[December 4, 2002, 7:58]
Economic turmoil sees rise in online scams
News For instance, there has been a marked increase in money-mule recruitment scams for people to transfer funds online between countries, and other illegal work-related spam in recent months, security firm Panda said on Thursday.
[November 21, 2008, 8:22]
Spam bill making headway in US Pt I
News Several private organizations, such as Junkbusters and ChooseYourMail.com, are also devoted to beating back spam and the scams they often carry. While exact statistics are hard to come by, experts also believe a greater percentage of spam mailings...
[June 16, 2000, 11:25]
Fake bank email tries to con customers
News He said none of these scams had made it through SpamTraps defences, as they were registered as spam. Over 800 examples of the fraudulent email were collected, more than twice the number collected during similar scams earlier this year.
[August 14, 2003, 13:05]
EU to launch scam crackdown
News The European Union will officially launch a crackdown on cross-border scams, including internet fraud, this week. In the UK alone, over three million adults fall victim to scams each year, costing each one an average of €1,500 (£1,000)," Kuneva...
[February 26, 2007, 15:06]
