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Job Offer Emails Target Bank Accounts Cybercriminals follow the job boards and then contact their potential victims offering them a great position at a company. Compliance Circle came across one of these scams that pretended to come from a bank, offering the recipient a contract job for 6 to 12 months at a prestigious financial institution. The body o...	9 November 2011 09:20 GMT

'RIP Steve Jobs' Followed by 'Steve Jobs Alive' Scam Scammers still profit from the death of Apple's number one man and if before all they did was earn from surveys, now they take things to another level by sending links to pages that are filled with malware.As we saw with all the great celebrities such as Michael Jackson or 2Pac, it's now Steve Jobs' tu...	7 October 2011 03:52 GMT

Nigerian Scam Becomes Burkina Faso Scam 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

Twitter Invitation Email Scam Spreads Malware Downloader One of the latest email spams to impersonate Twitter tries to trick users into opening a malicious attachment by passing it as an invitation to the micro blogging service. Meanwhile, Twitter email change scams are still going around and send unsuspecting victims to websites packed with exploits.Security researchers f...	28 June 2010 11:04 GMT

Australian Taxpayers Targeted by Phishers Australia's taxation agency, the Australian Tax Office (ATO), warns of a phishing campaign, which has been in circulation since the beginning of June. The tax refund-themed email scam directs taxpayers to a phishing page that is a convincing looking replica of the office's website. The fraudulent messages ...	19 June 2009 06:09 GMT

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