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Yahoo! cracks down on eBay phishers
News Blocking the scam emails before they hit in-boxes should cut down on the problem. is upgrading its Mail system with DomainKeys technology, to block phishing spam and other fraudulent... [04 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.06.07
Round-Up That's 'good news' in the loosest sense if you happen to be among the two per cent of people who have fallen victim to a phishing scam. Phishing involves the sending of fraudulent emails which ape the... [22 Jun 2007]
Why does phishing work?
News Speaking at the E-Crime Congress in London last week, Bernhard Otupal, a crime intelligence officer for high-tech crime at Interpol, said consumers are not only still falling for this kind scam in large numbers but... [03 Apr 2006]
eBay: You've got (private) mail
News According to a report from online privacy watchdog Truste, seven out of 10 people who go online have received phishing emails, and 15 per cent of those have been duped into providing personal... [05 Jan 2005]
Exclusive: The headlines you WON'T see in 2005
News People continue to fall for scams such as the Nigerian 419 scam and the Dutch National Lottery emails. No oddball lots on eBay this week Even in the slowest of news weeks there will... [22 Dec 2004]
Scammers use Gmail invite as phishing hook
News Now the scammers have caught on and are using the Gmail allure for a phishing scam to harvest email addresses and passwords. The currently invite-only service has even provoked people trying to sell their Gmail addresses... [15 Sep 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Phishing
Cheat Sheet The scam will be emailed out to large lists of people asking them to confirm their eBay or QXL account details for example, because the database is being cleaned up, or some such excuse. Then there is... [25 Jun 2004]
Alarming rise in phishing attacks
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... [26 May 2004]
Phishing line hooks 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 such as bank... [23 Mar 2004]
Phishing attacks get clever
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... [05 Feb 2004]
5 years ago... eBay has its back to the wall over online auction fraud
News However, users who fall for the scam and hand over the account details are often the dupes in fraudulent scams - such as people claiming to sell items they don't really have. Internet auction pioneer,... [15 Dec 2003]
Leader: The end of the 'phishing' line
Leader But what happens to the details of those who fall for the scam? The practice of 'phishing' - whereby spam emails try to lure unsuspecting victims to enter account details on a fake web page of a trusted... [12 Nov 2003]
EXCLUSIVE: eBay warns of new fraud
News The criminal or criminals behind the scam have clearly gone to some lengths to covert heir tracks and evade detection and capture.silicon.com was contacted by Krivosikova after six emails to... [12 Nov 2003]
eBay traders targeted by email scam
News Over the past week, users of eBay's online payments service have been receiving emails masquerading as official PayPal alerts. Tricks involving bogus email posing as legitimate messages from... [10 Mar 2003]
eBay and the ID thieves
News Thousands of domain names with the word 'ebay' have been registered, and web-savvy scam artists can dress up a web address to look like it resolves to 'ebay.com'. In Fraser's case, that... [22 Nov 2002]
