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Yahoo Email Hacked
Anyone who has a Yahoo Mail account should change their password! My wife’s account was just hacked – not sure how as she doesn’t use it any more, but none-the-less it was. Read More
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What is Phishing and how can I avoid them?
An explanation on what Phishing is. Read More
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Nigerian eBay Scam – Victim lost $8700 for selling PS3 on EBay
An unfortunate single mother was scammed into sending $8700 to a Nigerian who claimed to represent Western Australia’s government’s consumer protection agency. Read More
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| SWISS LOTTO NETHERLANDS – Phishing | August 27, 2010 |
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An email pretending to be from Swiss Lotto stating that you have won 750,000 EURO’s. Read More
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| ELM Team – Job opportunity – (id 1282888832) – Phishing Scam | August 27, 2010 |
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A Phishing Scam pretending to the a job opportunity. Read More
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| Find your dream job! : [1281334263] – Phishing Scam | August 3, 2010 |
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People believe that this is trying to get you into Money Laundering, and on the surface it seems that way. I just don’t believe a criminal would try to launder money though a random person they have never met. So I believe that this is most likely a Nigerian 419 Scam as I am sure they will ask for some legal fees to release money or something. Read More
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| Random Emails with HTML Attachment – Malware | June 26, 2010 |
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Over the last month or so I have been inundated with emails claiming to be from various sources like 123Greetings, Facebook, Microsoft and all claiming that I must open the attached file. BEWARE! Read More
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| YouTube – Malware | June 8, 2010 |
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An email supposedly from YouTube says that a user would like to be friends, but when you click it you are directed to a Russian website that is hosting Malware. Read More
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| Person’s Consulting Group – Nigerian 419 Scams | June 6, 2010 |
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After discussing with the scammer, I am certain that this is a Nigerian 419 Scam. He is offering a position in his ‘Prestigious Financial Company’ by the name of Person’s Consulting Group (or Perscons Group sp??) which involves transferring large sums of cash between bank accounts and keeping a 5% commission for the trouble. Yeah right! He said the company is 8 years old, quite strange then that the website was create just a few days ago and that portions of the text is a complete copy of another website. Read More
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| American Express – Phishing | May 31, 2010 |
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An email pretending to be from American Express asking you to access their new ‘American Express Online Form’. Obviously do not enter any details as it is a Phishing site. Read More
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| William – Phishing | May 30, 2010 |
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This email is obviously not the real ‘Mr William LEUNG Wing Cheung BBS, JP’ from the Hang Seng Bank board of Directors. Firstly the email address is a yahoo webmail address, and also the grammar is unbelievably bad! Whoever created this scam is quite dim as this is an old scam and he is using the same email address and other details in each email. No wonder he resorts to scamming as he doesn’t have the brains to keep a real job. Read More
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| Yahoo Email Hacked | May 25, 2010 |
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Anyone who has a Yahoo Mail account should change their password! My wife’s account was just hacked – not sure how as she doesn’t use it any more, but none-the-less it was. Read More
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| Ceffin C & F – Nigerian 419 Scams | May 25, 2010 |
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An email ‘apparently’ from Ceffin C & F stating that there is a new Financial Manager position in their company. All you need to do is to transfer money between accounts and you get to keep 5%. Sounds too good to be true – and no doubt it is. Firstly, there is no deadline for the applications – unheard of especially for a Financial Manager. Secondly, it’s generic email address. How stupid do they think we are? Read More
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