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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. We encourage people to notify us and not to respond to these emails," said Pursglove, noting that eBay makes it a...
[March 10, 2003, 11:12]
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]
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]
Phishers target Yahoo IM users
News Yahoo confirmed on Thursday its service was being targeted by a phishing scam. The scam is convincing because the original message seems to arrive from someone on the victim's friends list. Yahoo's free instant-messaging (IM) service is being...
[March 24, 2005, 9:40]
Criminal gangs blackmail Web users with porn threat
News For users finding similar attempts to scam them landing in their inbox, the advice is to step up security and treat the email like any other attempted crime. The 'child pornography' threat email follows the pattern of a scam of a few years ago...
[July 22, 2004, 16:30]
Phishing attacks up 1,000-fold since September
News Phishing is an Internet scam in which unsuspecting users receive official-looking emails that attempt to fool them into disclosing online passwords, user names and other personal information. According to the APWG's Web site, the new attack...
[April 19, 2004, 17:50]
Phishing scam 'most devious ever'
News In that case the scam's designers used encrypted SSL conections to direct users to their site but fraudulent certificates to persuade victims they were in the right place. Typically, phishing scam emails appear to have been sent from the victim's...
[March 3, 2004, 8:00]
Phishers improve bait as they target ISPs
News According to Jevans, the phishers are primarily after credit card information, so a typical scam email would tell the user that their credit card had expired or that the company was having a billing problem and needed the user to update their...
[February 5, 2004, 14:15]
Open season for phishing as attacks soar
News Phishing is an Internet scam where official-looking emails attempt to fool users into disclosing online passwords, user names and other personal information. This was illustrated by the Anti-Phishing Working Group's report, which found that eBay...
[May 25, 2004, 13:45]
Salesforce tight-lipped after phishing attack
News We learned that a Salesforce.com employee had been the victim of a phishing scam that allowed a Salesforce.com customer contact list to be copied," wrote Harris. A few days ago a new wave of phishing attempts that included attached malware...
[November 7, 2007, 14:17]
Phishing attacks hook more and more victims
News Phishing is an Internet scam in which unsuspecting users receive official-looking emails that attempt to fool them into disclosing online passwords, user names and other personal information. The financial services sector continues top be the most...
[March 22, 2004, 12:45]
Malware records banking passwords
News In the past, the most common way to collect financial information was through fraud like the Nigerian email scam," said Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager in antivirus company Symantec's security response centre.
[June 30, 2004, 8:55]
Phishing hole 'left open' by banks
News The scam involved a phishing email that exploited a scripting program on the bank's Web site to build an imitation site that attempted to trick customers into sharing their personal data. But with cross-site scripting, people are more likely to...
[March 15, 2005, 7:55]
UK man arrested in phishing probe
News UK Police have arrested a 21-year-old man they suspect of running a phishing scam that targeted customers of online bank Smile. The UK’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) was tipped off about the phishing scam in January by Smile, which is the...
[February 7, 2005, 14:10]
Suspected phisher arrested
News Roughly one in four US Internet users is a target of a phishing scam, according to another recent study. Aided by Microsoft, Bulgarian police nabbed eight people last week who allegedly targeted MSN customers in an international phishing operation.
[January 27, 2006, 9:30]
eBay takes on phishers with email service
News According to a report from online privacy watchdog Truste, seven out of 10 people who go online have received phishing emails, and 15 percent of those have been duped into providing personal information.eBay has been assertive in fighting scam...
[January 5, 2005, 7:55]
Greatest security risk: Social engineering, says Gartner
News Rob Forsyth, managing director at Sophos in Australia and New Zealand, told ZDNet Australia about a 'malicious and cynical' scam that recently targeted unemployed Australians. According to Forsyth, the potential victim received an email that...
[November 1, 2004, 7:39]
Fraudsters continue to target eBay
News The scam email, provided to Reuters by White, is headed "Ebay (sic) billing error" and begins: "Dear Ebay Member, We at Ebay are sorry to inform you that we are having problems with the billing information of your account.
[December 11, 2002, 15:53]
SpamHaus targeted by child-porn email attack
News The spammer is clearly hoping to overload Spamhaus's servers with emails from angry email users aggrieved that they have been falsely accused of buying child pornography. The email also contains a link to the Spamhaus website where users are...
[December 2, 2003, 16:15]
