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News Nigerian' money scam - What happens when you reply? So you're out and about, need to get online but Starbucks is too busy. Why not try the more relaxing surroundings of a nearby pub - especially now they're all smoke-free?
[09 Apr 2008]
News One of the largest ID thefts was a £1.1m scam where a couple claimed benefits for eight adults and 46 children. A spokesman for KPMG said high-tech cons such as phishing and other online scams are providing new opportunities for criminals.
[04 Feb 2008]
News These are ranked via information concerning whether the site hosts malware, if it is a spamming site - where entering your email address could result in thousands of spam emails, if the site is linked to sites hosting malware, or if it is a...
[04 Dec 2007]
News Information about many senior execs is widely available online as well as through Companies House in the UK. According to MessageLabs, emails carrying executable code and targeting high-level execs, or even their PAs in some instances, are...
[02 Jul 2007]
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. And even worse still, Gabriel has posted online details which he said would spoil the ending for the millions of...
[22 Jun 2007]
News The scam, often linked to mafia criminal groups, has essentially been around since even before the internet (via cold-calling rather than email). But an analysis of some six million emails per week conducted by Marshal Software's TRACE team shows...
[22 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet There was also one notable scam allegedly linked to Chip and PIN shortly after it became compulsory. But in truth, the evidence points to Chip and PIN being a success in the long term with a few niggles - such as the rise in online fraud - that...
[13 Jun 2007]
News MySpace charges that Wallace launched a phishing scam in October to fraudulently access MySpace profiles. He has been sued by the Federal Trade Commission and companies including America Online and Concentric Network.
[28 Mar 2007]
News US federal authorities have charged three men with hacking into online brokerage accounts and using the proceeds to manipulate the stock of Google, Sun Microsystems and 12 other companies. Indian nationals Jaisankar Marimuthu, Chockalingam...
[14 Mar 2007]
News Websense, which has been tracking the scam, has identified one of the servers used in the hacking attempts and is recording compromised IP addresses, as well as other data stored by the server, according to Camissar.
[20 Feb 2007]
News One notable hiccup occurred in May, when petrol company Shell was hit by a chip and PIN scam which resulted in the theft of more than £1m from customer accounts. Wi-fi became more common in London pubs - so much so that silicon.com created a guide...
[18 Dec 2006]
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. Want to know more about online scamming and how to...
[07 Nov 2006]
whitepaper The recent flurry of media coverage around identity theft and what is being called "The new scam of phishing," in which online thieves attempt to use computers to gain illegal access to personal information, sometimes obscures the fact that these...
[06 Oct 2006]
News Data including credit card numbers, online banking credentials, and login names and passwords of thousands of individuals from Australia and the US has already been collected in the scam, Roger Thompson, chief technology officer at security...
[22 Sep 2006]
News Bank of Ireland has agreed to compensate victims of a recent phishing scam, backtracking from its earlier position. It said: "Bank of Ireland is aware that there are fraudulent emails being circulated purporting to be from Bank of Ireland 365 online.
[08 Sep 2006]
Round-Up Could it be the days of the 419 scam are numbered? The Round-Up's favourite statistic of the week is undoubtedly the number of bananas that supermarket giant Tesco has sold online this year. To make matters worse the ads were intended to inform...
[25 Aug 2006]
News In May, petrol company Shell was hit by an alleged chip and PIN scam which resulting in the company suspending the use of chip and PIN payments at 600 UK petrol stations as a precautionary measure. According to figures from Apacs, online banking...
[15 Aug 2006]
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 victim to the scam, she said.
[19 Jun 2006]
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 control of the PC to an unknown...
[17 May 2006]
News Phishing is a prevalent type of online scam that seeks to pilfer personal information from unsuspecting internet users. An unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer could aid fraudsters in pulling off phishing scams, experts have warned.
[07 Apr 2006]
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