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Get a Free Wii on eBay ... if You're Lucky

"This is either a major deal or a connery" you might be thinking right now. Who would do such a thing when it's almost Christmas time? It's probably one of those eBayers who likes to take advantage of the Wii shortage and promises all of us a free Wii... with a catch. He offers 20 envelopes for auction on ...

6 December 2007
03:07 GMT

How About Buying 30,000 Credit Cards for 1 Pound Each?

A few weeks ago, a security researcher managed to prove us that a huge number of credit cards could be bought online at very low prices. And today, The Times confirms this issue, as the publication has managed to access numerous samples of stolen data, supposed to convince the users to buy a bigger pack of details. T...

3 December 2007
03:40 GMT

Cisco Brazil Chief Suspended for Tax Evasion

Cisco Systems had to pull out chief Carlos Roberto Carnevali after he was charged with tax evasion of up to $845 million in import duties and other taxes. The evasion had been the subject of an internal investigation and revealed that Carnevali and 15 other employees of Cisco Systems worked with distributor Mude Come...

26 November 2007
06:32 GMT

Extremely Dangerous eBay Attack in Progress

Why would you want to do that? I guess every user who visits eBay looking for a car wants all the information he requests in order to be sure the Jeep he buys is a not a fake. But a recently discovered scam provides all kinds of information, including images and other type of content, but it actually aims to steal us...

15 November 2007
03:20 GMT

Interested In Buying Porn Using Your Employer's Money?

Bradley Gilbert, a 20-year-old man from Bethlehem, was sent to prison for money fraud after he used his ex-employer's bank account to access pornographic content, The Morning Call reports today. In case you're saying this is no big deal, you should know that Mr. Gilbert spent no less than $3,196 on the adul...

14 November 2007
06:08 GMT

How to Get $4 Million and 6 Years in Jail

A US court accused no less than 17 persons of identity theft, credit card fraud and other illegal activities conducted and promoted with the help of the Internet, Reuters reported today. According to the same source, a corporation is also involved in the case. It appears that the fraudsters obtained no less than $4 m...

9 November 2007
03:08 GMT

False Positives Make Crime Go Unpunished!

That's the usual case - when the Police receives too many complaints, some get unnoticed and some criminals remain unpunished. Some people panic too much and send the Police a lot of notifications regarding suspicious activities. For example, up to 300.000 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) are filed every month...

27 September 2007
04:46 GMT

Greetings! You Got Hacked!

You know e-cards, you've probably sent a lot of them in your life - I sure sent my share of those. People like them and always enjoy getting one. But if you've read this year's cyber-security news, then you know that cyber-crooks have been using these cards for attacks. Besides the fact that this is ve...

19 September 2007
08:09 GMT

New eBay Security Measure Deemed Useless

eBay just came up with something new to protect their customers. To me, this measure does not mean too much, but that's just my opinion. You decide for yourself if it's any good. What they just did is increase buyer protection to £500. That would be nice if it were to protect you in any situation, but they ...

18 September 2007
10:08 GMT

84-Year-Old Still Uses Internet and Gets Scammed Too

It's one thing to outsmart an elder, but to do that and gain profit of it, well, that's illegal. This is the case of Toluwalade Alonge Owolabi which scammed an 84-year-old via the Internet - he has been caught by the Police and charged with fraud.It all happened in Canada and not in Africa, as you would exp...

14 September 2007
03:07 GMT

Stolen Data Results in Huge Fraud

There have been many news items earlier this year about the huge data breach that hit retailer giant TJX. Hackers had been stealing sensitive information for a few months, so it's easy to imagine how hard the blow was. Costs were huge on the company side, after the hack has happened, and I'm talking about m...

12 September 2007
06:48 GMT

UK Great Hackers Come From... a Small Fishing Village...

As you may or may not know, the United Kingdom is home to some of the greatest hackers the world has seen. London is the biggest hacker colony in England, but guess who else is on the same list! Iiiiiit's Brighton!!! I've never heard of it until now, but as I've seen on The Argus this little town is ra...

5 September 2007
10:38 GMT

Young Hacker Jailed

Young people hacking computers and scamming others on the Internet are starting to become more and more numerous. Cyber-crime is a lot easier to commit than real life crime, it's more at hand to fraud people on eBay than to steal money directly from their pockets, that's because fooling people on the Intern...

22 August 2007
07:48 GMT

Too Tired to Learn for Exams? No More Cheating Allowed!

The folks from Blackboard managed to build a revolutionary software solution that is meant to stop the student fraud and detect the copied content used in papers and exams. Since most of students gained access to the Internet, plagiarism boomed as almost any paper work could be found on the web. The only problem was ...

15 August 2007
05:07 GMT

Hey Everybody, We're in Danger! Somebody Call 419 Scam!

A new scam campaign that affected a 49-year-old Australian man was finally stopped after no less than six men were arrested by the Dutch police. Security company Sophos reported that the cybercriminals managed to steal approximately $1.5 million by tricking the victim with a $90 million fake contract. According to th...

13 August 2007
06:47 GMT

Gone Phishing

It has been a while now since phishing became the trendiest online threat. Although there have been taken measures against this type of scam, there are still plenty of victims out there. The bad part is that the victim cannot blame anyone but him/herself for the theft. Authorities are doing their best in catching the...

21 July 2007
08:42 GMT

Credit Card Fraudsters: the Beginning of the End!

The U.S. Secret Service managed to arrest 4 persons involved in a dangerous criminal gang from Florida that stole no less than 200.000 credit cards. It seems like they obtained approximately $75 million from the credit card frauds but they quickly redirected the money to other destinations as the investigators discov...

10 July 2007
10:57 GMT

Credit Card Fraudsters Steal and Donate the Money

A new technique to steal credit cards and remain unidentified is spreading on the Internet, numerous attackers preferring to donate money to charity in order to verify the validity of the cards. This is quite an interesting method to avoid identification because the banks and the authorities are often ignoring the ch...

9 July 2007
09:12 GMT

European Hackers Sent to Jail

Five people from the Eastern Europe were sentenced to jail after they were found guilty for the largest UK credit card fraud. The gang was led by Roman Zyking, a Russian immigrant who received no more than five and a half years in prison while his wife was sentenced to six months in jail. According to Viruslist, the ...

14 May 2007
09:16 GMT

Extra, Extra, Read All About It: Fraud, They Wrote

Easy money has always been the basic preoccupation of some people. Fast money is an appealing deal for some regardless of its (in)compatibility with the law. And as Internet is still an X factor for many, those that know how to handle it benefit from the naivety of others.The Internet is the home of billions of websi...

26 April 2007
10:55 GMT

No More or Less Roaming Frauds

Fair Isaac Corporation, one of the leading providers of analytics and decision management technology, and Optel Informatik, a German systems supplier for the telecommunications market, recently announced the mobile industry's first Near Real-Time Roaming Data Exchange (NRTRDE ) gateway to help wireless operators...

13 March 2007
11:05 GMT

Where The F**k Do The Magnets Fit In?

OK, this is a tough one and quite uncanny: really weird. I mean, how can someone win the CES 2007 Best Innovation award and yet be so scarce in actually saying something about the device in question.It's the case of German Furutech company and its supposedly revolutionary device, Demag. OK, so what Demag does (o...

2 March 2007
09:41 GMT


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