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How do you react if you receive an email from a company that claims you can make easy money by purchasing and selling Facebook shares? Whatever your answer may be now, we’ll make sure to give you the right one by the end of this article.
Security experts from Symantec have come across a new scam email that lev... |
19 May 2012
05:49 GMT |
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A 71-year-old woman from East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, fell victim to a fraudster group that managed to convince her to voluntarily hand them over $34,500 (26,000 EUR).
According to The Advocate, the scheme began when the victim was approached at Home Depot by a man wearing a suit and a tie who claimed that he... |
7 May 2012
04:25 GMT |
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A fake Facebook lottery is making the rounds, promising recipients a prize of $100,000 (€76,000). In reality, those who respond to the email message that carries the scam will be asked to pay certain amounts of money that are allegedly needed to complete the transaction.
Apparently signed by “The Facebook... |
25 April 2012
06:08 GMT |
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A 23-year-old woman from Australia was accused of fraud by a court of law after she got involved in the operations of some Nigerian crooks that were running a vehicle sales scam.
According to Courier Mail, the suspect, Sarah Jane Cochrane-Ramsey, claims she unknowingly participated in the scam since March 2010, her ... |
24 February 2012
04:52 GMT |
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The latest 419 scam that circulates via email dupes recipients into thinking that they won a “gold membership status” on Facebook, which qualifies them for a $2.5 million (1.7 million EUR) prize offered by the social media company.
Hoax Slayer informs that the potential victims are not only requested to ... |
20 February 2012
04:20 GMT |
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The success of a BBC television show gave cybercriminals ideas for a 419 scam that has the potential to fill their pockets with money from unsuspecting Internet users who are duped into thinking that they may be the recipients of a fortune.
Graham Cluley from Sophos came across one of these email scams that relies o... |
7 February 2012
08:13 GMT |
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The latest 419 scam email pretends to come from the FBI’s Executive Deputy Director, accusing recipients of performing a large number of illegal transactions.
The phony email bears the subject "You are on the FBI wanted persons list. Reply now to clear your name," and warns the recipient that due to the large ... |
16 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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The so-called 419 scams, or Nigerian scams, which start with an email telling the recipient that he could win diamond mines or millions in exchange for their assistance, can sometime turn real ugly and end with the victim being kidnapped. Such is the case of a South Korean man and his daughter who responded to a Sout... |
14 January 2012
05:27 GMT |
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What is the chance for a Bank of America phishing scam to obtain information from Internet users in France? Many can agree that the chances are slim and this is precisely why cybercriminals have begun using botnets to launch more targeted spam operations that increase their success rates.
ESET researchers from Irela... |
10 January 2012
07:25 GMT |
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Scammers came up with new techniques of masking a classic 419 scam. The latest methods imply that the actual message, the one that promises tens of millions from diamond mines and banks from Africa, is hidden in an archived text file that comes attached to the email.
“This is a confidential message, please kin... |
5 December 2011
10:53 GMT |
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A lawyer from New Zealand might have broken a record that wouldn't make anyone proud. He ended up paying close to a million dollars (700,000 EUR) to 419 scammers from Amsterdam which promised $27 million (19 million EUR) to one of his customers.
According to The New Zealand Herald, Jennifer Taukamo received an ... |
1 November 2011
10:27 GMT |
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A message that promises the experience of a lifetime by giving users the opportunity to become secret shoppers turns out to be nothing but a 419 scam which gets away with your information and your money.
GFI Labs informs us of a message that reads “SECRET SHOPPING JOB AVAILABLE/URGENT REPLY NEEDED.”
It&... |
28 October 2011
05:25 GMT |
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The now famous Ayesha Gaddafi, the only daughter of the recently killed Libyan dictator, returns to our attention in a new spam campaign, but since last time we saw her, she spent a large part of the 70 million she promised us.
As Commtouch Cafe informs us, she is now only offering “Fourteen Millions Two Hundr... |
27 October 2011
03:12 GMT |
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The latest spam campaign that uses the name of the recently killed dictator promises millions to anyone willing to help one of his men.
“As the battle is over, I want to give you the secret Deposit key to this fund to make this claim, and use 70% from the fund to establish good investment in the country of you... |
26 October 2011
07:54 GMT |
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Emails that seem to be coming from the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself, promise recipients the funds they've been expecting for years.Nigerian scams, also known as 419 scams, are being redesigned to gain the trust of unknowing internauts by pretending to be coming from UK officials instead of the popular Afr... |
24 October 2011
04:48 GMT |
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An email is roaming the web, announcing the participants of a fabulous winning that makes them millionaires overnight, but instead of dollars, the victims get a lot of malware, lies and an emptied bank account.419 scams keep getting better and better but somehow they all manage to fail right at the end.According to G... |
18 October 2011
07:27 GMT |
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Google calendars are widely used to send memos and invites to friends and acquaintances and because these invites are fairly trusted, spammers were discovered launching social engineering maneuvers hidden within them.A 419 scam was discovered the by Sunbeltblog masqueraded in such an invitation and for the unlucky pe... |
29 September 2011
08:12 GMT |
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Email con artists still hope to profit from the naivety of some people, promising millions to those willing to help them. The only difference now is that the newer versions of the Nigerian scam are a bit better documented.Yesterday I received an email from what seemed to be the exchange manager of a Burkina Faso ban... |
27 September 2011
07:45 GMT |
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Several 419 scam emails observed recently are leveraging the difficult situation of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to trick users.The emails purport to come from members of the Gaddafi family who are trying to urgently move money out of the country.Security researchers from Symantec have intercepted one such email tha... |
30 August 2011
16:46 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that 419 scams that try to extort money from individuals by threatening their lives are back in use.In one sample recently spotted by security experts from Symantec, recipients are contacted by an alleged hitman who calls himself Don Gunshot.According to the message, he was hired to kill the... |
5 July 2011
14:24 GMT |
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Ten people were indicted for their roles in running an advance-fee fraud operation that involved sending traditional 419 scam emails to people.Advance-fee fraud is a common type of scam where the attacker promises a big reward, but asks the victim to send a sum of money in advance to help secure it.This concept has e... |
8 March 2011
04:55 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of advance-fee email scams in languages other than English, which suggests that fraudsters are using automated translation services.Advance-fee fraud emails, also known as 419 or Nigerian letters, are scams in which victims are promised a large return on investment if they send payments in a... |
22 February 2011
10:10 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that scammers are abusing the "share via email" functionality of news websites in order to push scam emails that bypass spam filters.In on example presented by Rik Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro, a classic 419 advance-fee scam was sent through the "email this" feature on th... |
13 December 2010
03:51 GMT |
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The personal email account of Tennessee State Senator Mae Beavers has been compromised by unknown attackers and was used to send scam messages to all of her contacts.Senator Beavers learned of the security breach when she started receiving calls from people about strange emails she allegedly sent.The rogue messages c... |
29 November 2010
02:25 GMT |
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A Nigerian national was sentenced to 151 months in prison last week for instrumenting various advance-fee scams that lead to losses of over $1.3 million.Okpako Mike Diamreyan, 31, of Nigeria was found guilty by a jury in Connecticut back in February of three counts of wire fraud stemming from his activity as an Inte... |
6 September 2010
04:12 GMT |
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Late last week Zimbabwean Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Moses Mzila Ndlovu found out that his email was compromised and abused by scammers. Fraudulent emails were sent to all of his contacts claiming that he needed money to get back home from London.The "stranded traveler" is a typical 419 Nigerian scam, or othe... |
20 July 2010
13:50 GMT |
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A new scam is impersonating Gen. Ray Odierno, the senior commander of US troops in Iraq in order to steal money from the soldiers' families. The rogue messages ask for $200,000 in exchange of sending their children home earlier.The New York Times reports that Gen. Odierno himself mentioned the ongoing scam durin... |
12 July 2010
03:15 GMT |
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Unknown scammers have hacked into the Yahoo! email account of Iowa State Senator Bob Dvorsky and used it to send scam emails to his contacts. The rogue messages claimed the senator is stranded in Scotland after his wallet was stolen and needs money to get back home.Democrat Sen. Bob Dvorsky's of Iowa realized ye... |
8 July 2010
08:01 GMT |
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