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RSS ebay scamYahoo! 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 emails that look like they come from... [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 branding of well... [22 Jun 2007]
UK suffering fraud boom-time
News A typical skimming scam, involves fraudsters attaching a device to the entry slot of the cash machine to record the details of the card's magnetic strips as they are inserted into the machine. Typical phishing scams rely... [07 Nov 2006]
PayPal tackles phishing trap
News PayPal has fixed a flaw in its website to block a sophisticated scam designed to obtain sensitive data from members, the payment service said on Friday. The company has no information on how many people may have fallen... [19 Jun 2006]
Online casino punters targeted by malware scams
News Last week Betfair Poker issued a statement to users of its site warning of a social engineering scam which attempted to direct users to a site that would drop a Trojan onto their computer - effectively surrendering... [17 May 2006]
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]
Phishers script their way into online banking
News But with cross-site scripting, people are more likely to fall for the scam, because the URL actually belongs to a real business. The scam involved a phishing email that exploited a scripting program on... [15 Mar 2005]
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 information.eBay has been... [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 always be somebody... [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. The most obvious... [25 Jun 2004]
Teen eBay scammer jailed for nearly three years
News At the age of 17, he was found by the authorities to be involved in another internet scam - taking over $1m off punters to use in online betting after telling them he had tips that 'couldn't lose'. A US teenager has been... [16 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 Working Group's... [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 details. [23 Mar 2004]
DoS and phishing attacks: coming to a mobile near you?
News It's possible, using roughly the same tools as the phishing scam, to scupper someone's mobile. All it takes is a laptop with Bluetooth, a premium rate phone line and some nifty social engineering to carry out some... [20 Feb 2004]
