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'Fake' scam text messages warn against rip-offs
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is sending out fake scam SMS messages to young people to help raise awareness around text scams. Mike Haley, director of consumer protection at the OFT, said the organisation hopes the fake scam texts will remind... [15 Feb 2008]
Redmond working "non-stop" on IE patch
News The scam involves email messages that at first glance appear to be greeting cards but clicking on the link to view the card sends the target to a malicious website that tries to silently install keystroke-logging software. [26 Sep 2006]
Cheap VoIP? It's a 'vish' come true for scammers...
News Phishers have already been sending out emails that attempt to trick people into sharing personal information over the phone, instead of via a website, the traditional scam. In Iceland and the UK, SMS text messages were used to lure people to a... [11 Jul 2006]
Phishers adding VoIP to their bag of tricks?
News The company urged people who do receive the messages to notify their service providers immediately. In both cases, the spammed message warns of a problem with a bank account and instructs the recipient to dial a phone number to resolve it, the... [28 Apr 2006]
Fake Yahoo! website running ID theft scam
News This means a user will receive a message - often from someone on their friends list - telling them to visit the site, which makes the scam more believable. He conceded the messages could be generated by a virus or other malware, adding "viruses... [31 Aug 2005]
Virus warning: Worm uses news-hook for bait
News The worm can send a variety of messages. One of the messages, as seen by Sophos, read: "Someone sent me this document which is stolen from a secret government body and deals about John Paul's death. Ironically, another one of the messages that can... [29 Jun 2005]
Star Wars used as hook for phishers
A new worm and a phishing scam are targeting members of the America Online and Yahoo instant-messaging networks, security companies warned on Tuesday. The worm and phishing scam are the latest in an increasing number of cyberthreats that use... [25 May 2005]
Virus writers claim Blair's email account was hacked
It appears that the email messages were supposed to display a photograph of Tony Blair from the BBC Web site to lend it credence, but an elementary mistake in their HTML coding has meant only the text of the message is displayed rather than a... [06 May 2005]
Trojan masquerades as Windows patch
The scam is common enough that the software giant has created a Web page to answer Windows' users questions. The company notes on that Web site that it never sends updates as attachments to email messages. [27 Jan 2005]
Banks criticised for muddying phishing waters
News Green assumed he was being targeted by a phishing scam and contacted the bank. Ironically it is that 'out of the blue' nature of such unsolicited anti-fraud measures which have raised concerns about the calls themselves being part of a scam. [11 Jan 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.01.05
Round-Up Within a few short hours of the earthquake the silicon.com inbox had seen the first scam email arriving as spam and purporting to come from a charitable foundation urging recipients to give generously. [07 Jan 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 assertive in fighting scam... [05 Jan 2005]
eBay takes on phishers with email service
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... [05 Jan 2005]
Tsunami email hoaxer charged
News Many other email hoaxers, most notably spammers and those committing frauds such as the Nigerian 419 scam, prey upon any topical event to find a hook for their emails - no matter how tasteless. Already hoax emails asking for donations have been... [04 Jan 2005]
Fake stock market tip scam becomes phone spam
News The scam dubbed by the US as "pump and dump" involves an unknown caller leaving a message on the recipient's answering machine dictating to "his or her 'friend' about an excellent investment tip they have received". [27 Sep 2004]
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