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News A government initiative that has rolled out 419 non-charging cash machines to low income areas is set to increase deployment by a third by the end of the year. The initiative run by HM Treasury and the ATM Working Group... [18 Jul 2008]
Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall
News Spring is almost in the air but something else taking off this month was news Nasa is planning to build a mobile phone network on the moon. Clearly current levels of demand for mobile coverage on the big green cheese-wheel in the sky are... [28 Feb 2008]
silicon.com Classics: 'Nigerian' money scam - What happens when you reply?
News In the first of a new weekly series looking back at the classic silicon.com stories of the last decade we revisit an encounter with a gentleman calling himself Mr Madu Frank. Everyone is now familiar with these 419 scam... [04 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.03.07
Round-Up It's been a week of irony upon irony. And the Round-Up isn't talking irony in the Alanis Morissette simply-not-ironic-in-the-least-bit sense of the word. Don't get the Round-Up started.these are old wounds. [09 Mar 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: The worst ever 419 scam emails
Comment The world's fraudsters are suffering from crippling writers' block. They sit in grimy internet cafés around the globe, biting their nails, not daring to touch the keyboard, all inspiration gone. How do I know? [27 Sep 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.08.06
Round-Up The Round-Up's favourite statistic of the week is undoubtedly the number of bananas that supermarket giant Tesco has sold online this year. In the first seven months of 2006 Tesco shifted a hugely impressive 11 million bananas over the... [25 Aug 2006]
Fraudsters ready with "a scam for everyone"
News Younger, more affluent consumers are just as likely as vulnerable, older consumers to be targeted by scammers. Research from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) shows that nearly half of the UK population - or 20 million consumers over the... [16 Feb 2006]
Brits fall foul of phone fraud
News Scammers have duped two million Brits into calling premium-rate phone lines at rates of £1.50 per minute. And more than 15 million adults have received automated phone calls from scammers in recent years inviting them to claim a prize by... [05 Jan 2006]
Nigeria joins anti-spam union
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has teamed with Nigerian officials to warn internet users of fraudulent junk email, known as Nigerian 419 scams, that attempt to con recipients into handing over cash. [04 Nov 2005]
Spam scams targeting smaller firms
News Most email users are familiar with large-scale spam broadcasts containing generic offers such as medications or financial services, or notorious scams sent out to random millions of recipients. But one security expert has warned that... [28 Oct 2005]
Leader: The beginning of the end for 419 scams?
Leader There can't be an internet user out there who hasn't been contacted by Lady Mariam Abacha offering a share of the secret fortune of her late husband, General Sani Abacha, in return for helping to launder the money and an upfront... [14 Oct 2005]
Nigeria enlists Microsoft to fight 419 scammers
News Microsoft is to work with the Nigerian government to help track down and prosecute criminals involved in 419 email scams and other internet-based fraud originating from the African country. Microsoft will provide... [14 Oct 2005]
CIO Jury: ISPs blamed over corporate security threats
News Internet service providers (ISPs) are failing to do enough to stem the tide of denial of service attacks, phishing scams and spam email bombarding corporate networks and websites, according to UK IT chiefs. [09 Sep 2005]
Fighting back against the phishers
News Scammers are overloading inboxes around the world with emails that purport to be from legitimate firms. These emails, dubbed phishing attacks, ask for personal information from the reader so scammers can steal identities and money. [06 Sep 2005]
London bomb victim used by 419 email scammers
News Computer users are being warned about a sick new 419 email scam claiming recipients are in line to receive millions of pounds from the estate of one of the victims of the London suicide bombings. The 419... [02 Aug 2005]
