Affiliate marketing scammers are taking advantage of the media attention given to the large data breach at Epsilon in order to gather credit card information.Earlier this year, hackers managed to break into servers belonging to Epsilon, one of the largest email marketing providers in the world, and walked away with t... |
26 May 2011
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Scammers didn't miss the chance to exploit Elizabeth Taylor's death for their own financial gain, security vendors warn.According to Kaspersky Lab Expert Dmitry Bestuzhev, spam messages reading "Download Movies Film legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 (AP) [link]," have been spotted on Twitter.spammers are u... |
25 March 2011
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Facebook is determined to make a stand against the scammers plaguing the social network in recent months and has filed lawsuits against three of them, for a start.The complaints were filed against two individuals named Steven Richter and Jason Swan, both of Long Island, New York, and a Canadian company called Max Bou... |
21 October 2010
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Security companies warn that affiliate marketing spammers have already began exploiting Halloween to trick people with fake prizes, contests and offers.It's a known fact that cybercriminal activity always intensifies around holidays, when people are more vulnerable and have more money to spend."Halloween is draw... |
20 October 2010
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Security researchers from Cyveillance warn that tough competition is pushing large afffiliate marketing groups running illegal pharmacy websites to expand into the counterfeit luxury goods business.Illegal online pharmacies, who offers drugs without prescriptions, have been around for many years and are some of... |
1 October 2010
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Security researchers from Sophos warn that the type of survey-themed spam that has become all too common on Facebook in recent months is now also targeting YouTube users via personal messages.Sophos Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley provides an example of such spam that was recently received on the company&... |
7 September 2010
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One of the latest Facebook scams lures users into taking surveys with the promise of revealing ten things that adults never tell their kids.Spam messages sent from the profiles of people who fell victims to this trick read "10 Things Adults NEVER Tell Their Kids !!" and contain a link to a rogue Facebook page.The pag... |
6 September 2010
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Security researchers from Sophos warn that scammers are reusing an older lure a teacher hitting a student to trick Facebook users into spamming their friends and completing surveys. The most intriguing part of this attack is that people are falling for it, despite this being old news and an identical scam running alm... |
28 July 2010
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Two new scams that prey on people's curiosity are quickly making their way through Facebook. One claims a mother went to jail because she took a picture of her son, while the other promises to reveal the reason that might lead to the shutdown of McDonald's.“OMG!! Guys, you have to see this: This mothe... |
21 July 2010
11:29 GMT |
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A new Facebook affiliate marketing scheme tricks users into spamming their friends and family by promissing them the opportunity to adopt a rare FarmVille cow. However, instead of receiving the virtual domestic animal, victims get the chance to buy useless stuff for the benefit of the scammers.With hundreds of millio... |
3 July 2010
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