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Several online poker players have exposed a fraud performed with the help of a cheat code that is estimated at $74 million according to an MSNBC report. The affected software was run by UltimateBet, a well known online poker website.UltimateBet is amongst the top poker websites on the Internet and it was acquired by ... |
25 September 2008
10:25 GMT |
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Reports are flying in saying that a scammer using an e-mail purporting to be from Apple is targeting MobileMe users. The e-mail claims there are problems with the users' subscription, and asks of them to re-enter their credit card information.As many of you should know (and especially former .Mac users), the tra... |
8 September 2008
05:42 GMT |
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Verizon, the popular wireless Internet and mobile services provider, was unwillingly involved in a scam that tried to persuade each of the victims to cough up no less than $3,200. Unknown persons, using the name of the company, tried to trick randomly selected individuals into believing they had won a $750,000 prize.... |
25 August 2008
04:45 GMT |
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This you won't believe. Apple's iPhone 3G, as you've probably already heard, is launching in 21 new countries starting today. While some markets are packed full of iPhone fans just waiting to grab the handset, in other territories, such as Poland, people aren't that keen on buying the new device. ... |
22 August 2008
15:47 GMT |
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The National Police Service in Ireland is investigating a major credit card scam in which information of over 20,000 credit and debit cards has been stolen. The attackers posed as bank service personnel and attached rogue devices to card readers in stores from northeast Ireland. The captured data was then sent on the... |
20 August 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned Windows Live Hotmail users that a new phishing scam is in progress, designed to hijack accounts. According to a member of the Windows Live Hotmail team, users have started receiving phishing messages warning of the immediate shutdown of their accounts with the Microsoft email service unless they ... |
12 August 2008
05:40 GMT |
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Sources are informing us that iPhone users searching the web for "iPhone apps" are most likely going to end up browsing the inner sections of a certain iPhoneApps.org, an (allegedly) scammy site that sells you not apps, but the ZiPhone jailbreaking tool, which... yeah, is freeware."Our developers here at iphone apps ... |
23 July 2008
09:07 GMT |
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The Nigerian scammers seem to be out of fresh ideas to put to use and line their pockets, so they are reviving a classic phishing attempt. They are once again sending out threatening spam messages and asking people to pay large amounts of money if they want to get to stay alive. The only difference is that they are n... |
22 July 2008
09:34 GMT |
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Why should scammers and spammers limit themselves to the Internet when there are far more mobile phone users than web surfers? In Australia there is a new scam going on, that attempts to separate people from their hard earned money by informing them that a hitman has been hired to kill them. Of course, you can get a... |
12 July 2008
07:37 GMT |
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The world is still terrified by the earthquake which shook down China on May 12 and scammers, hackers and phishers still want to take advantage of this. Another scam was detected by security company Sophos under the form of a 419 email which asks readers for their money. The only difference from a traditional 419 sca... |
26 May 2008
10:44 GMT |
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It's well known the fact that the upcoming Beijing Olympics will be one of the busiest times of the year for hackers because most of them will launch attacks related to the event in order to find new victims. In fact, it seems like the attacks have already been launched as NetworkWorld informs that a couple of p... |
25 April 2008
16:06 GMT |
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A new online lottery scam has been spotted on the web but, this time, the one affected is not Google or Yahoo, as in the previous cases, but Kia, the famous car producer. According to MotorTrader, an email message claiming to be sent by Kia informs readers that they have won a Kia and a 750,000 pounds money prize at ... |
23 April 2008
06:04 GMT |
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A study published by APACS, a UK payment association, reveals what was already known by all of us: the number of the phishing attacks is continuously increasing. According to a report published by the mentioned association, there were no less than 10,235 reported phishing scams in the first quarter of 2008, compared ... |
21 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Hackers work 24/7 and new victims of their malicious attempts appear every day. But what's interesting is that, of the total number of complainants who reported attacks, no less than 57.6 percent were male. This means that women are more difficult to trick when it comes to hacking/infecting/compromising a comput... |
4 April 2008
17:26 GMT |
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The Condemned 2 publishers have announced that two so-called "theme packs" and five picture packs are now available to be purchased via Xbox Live Marketplace. In what seems to be a revolutionary breakthrough and an incredible, unique gift, both the theme packs and the picture ones can be used as wallpapers or just k... |
14 March 2008
03:38 GMT |
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Buying a laptop cheaper than its market price is something most people only dream of, but it only happens to the lucky ones that are in the right place in the right time. You have to weigh you options very carefully and then know when to step in to make the kill, any bidding done too early might jeopardize the entire... |
11 March 2008
17:41 GMT |
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Gmail backup software G-Archiver, that should save all of the emails in the inbox on your hard drive, proves to be a user's nightmare, as Coding Horror reported that, besides doing what it is advertised to, the software also emails the user name and passwords of those who have installed and used it, to the appar... |
10 March 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Scams will be around for years to come, if not to the end of time. Seemingly natural, some people think they are smarter than others and try to take advantage of their gullibility. Truth be told, they often are, but that doesn't give them the right to benefit from their victims' lack of experience in Intern... |
5 March 2008
15:56 GMT |
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Well, "the world's best browser" seemingly doesn't fit the "safe" profile, according to PayPal, who has recently put up a list of recommended browsers. Unsurprisingly, Safari is not among them, for it still doesn't fully protect non-savvy users from phishing sites, for example."Safari protects your per... |
29 February 2008
03:48 GMT |
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I'm certain that each and everybody in the online community has received at one point an email from the grieving widow of some general from an African country that only needed some bank information to be able to transfer the huge sum of money left to her but couldn't collect. It usually says that for the se... |
26 February 2008
16:41 GMT |
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There are a lot of official tournaments and competitions organized by game developers or serious gaming networks. These will probably have no problem in giving you the exact cash prize they have promised or offer a full refund if something goes wrong. Unfortunately, there are a ton of other competitions organized in ... |
19 February 2008
07:01 GMT |
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A canine companion is something many people wanted for as long as they can remember, but because of parenting issues or space restrictions were never able to acquire one. The market being incredibly open because of the Internet options that have been added progressively, it was the perfect means for Mary Ann Alfaro t... |
14 February 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Auction sites are a breeding ground for every possible scammer there is. The procedure is fairly simple: you find somebody who has something you want, you win the auction and then ask for the product to be sent to your place (at this point it would be great to have a 'rented' PO box at a post office) and ne... |
13 February 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Since the Wii's becoming as scarce as a victory of the English national soccer team , we might as well sit back and wait for a second generation of Nintendo's consoles, or keep looking for bargains. 2.500 people did (look for cheap deals) at Christmas time, being "punk'd" by a British company that off... |
10 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Following the SEO news for a couple of years (which I'm assuming you have been doing), you must remember that at some point, in August 2005, Google publicly confirmed that they had penalized a site. What was so special about it was that it had been the first time ever when they came clean about it, in a trial ag... |
4 January 2008
06:18 GMT |
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No less than 3.6 million American adults have been victims of phishing scams conducted between August 2006 and August 2007, a survey made by Gartner revealed. TechConnect Magazine wrote that approximately $3.2 billion were lost, which represents a 2.3 percent increase from the previous year, when only 2.3 million peo... |
18 December 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Security experts from all over the world will have a very busy Christmas season as spammers, scammers, phishers and hackers have prepared new techniques and methods to attack computer users. Not only will they attempt to connect to their computers and access private information, but they will also conduct all sorts ... |
14 December 2007
09:22 GMT |
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This is the second phone scam of the week and I've already started thinking that these people really think they are able to steal somebody's information by asking them to provide it. In fact, they can, if the victims are naive enough to disclose it. But, let's get back to today's piece of news: a ... |
13 December 2007
06:54 GMT |
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Following the recent attacks involving social networking service, a new scam, which appears to be a threat for all of us, was reported by "The Local". According to this source, the Swedish woman was tricked to provide her financial details, which were then used by the attackers to steal her money. The entire operatio... |
12 December 2007
08:27 GMT |
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Sorin Pascu, 22-year-old, and Marius Braditeanu, both from Romania, were sentenced a few days ago, after they were arrested in July for an online phishing scam. Sorin Pascu will spend his next five and a half years in prison, while Marius Braditeanu, who was also the head of the illegal activity, got a six years in j... |
12 December 2007
05:20 GMT |
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Joanna Cieslak, 31-year-old, and Pawel Janicki, 32-year-old, are the last two victims of an online scam conducted through a web commercial. Today, Scotsman.com informs that the two Polish women agreed to pay no less than 500 pounds to an unknown person met on the web, who had promised them a home in the United Kingd... |
11 December 2007
09:19 GMT |
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OK, I admit, this is not so related to computers, but I was shocked when I first read this piece of news. You must be sick to call somebody and tell him his sister was hurt in an accident although nothing happened. You know, some people might suffer heart attacks caused by these stupid pranks. But let's get back... |
6 December 2007
16:31 GMT |
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One of the worst nightmares: buy a very expensive car through eBay and receive nothing. Not even your money. And this happened to approximately 1,000 Canadians in the last 7 years according to the CBC news. But, here's what happened a few days days ago. Shaqir Duraj, a Kosovo refugee who moved to Canada, has sta... |
4 December 2007
05:53 GMT |
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Cloudmark and YouGov conducted a new survey concerning the phishing attacks and their source, 42 percent of the respondents considering that their trust in a brand would be seriously reduced if a phishing message included the company's name. But what's more impressive is that 26 percent of the people includ... |
26 November 2007
10:13 GMT |
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In case you're one of the millions of Internet consumers who access instant messaging clients, you probably believe that this kind of application is one of the most secure on the web. Well, it isn't, no matter if you're using Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger or Google Talk. All the users who com... |
15 November 2007
15:36 GMT |
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Mark Hartman is one of the eBay registered members who like to buy things online, no matter if the merchant is living in a different corner of the world. Sure, it's a risk to buy something from a person who lives on the other half of the planet but eBay is pretty famous and popular for this kind of transactions.... |
9 November 2007
03:48 GMT |
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Salesforce.com, one of the leaders of the on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) industry offered customers contact details to phishers due to the naivety of an employee. It appears that a Salesforce employee was the target of a phishing attempt, providing access to the company's client contact informa... |
7 November 2007
13:13 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission confirmed that an avalanche of email messages claiming to be sent by the federal agency aim to steal the usernames and passwords stored on victims' computers. According to the Associated Press, the emails come from frauddep[at]ftc.gov and inform the receivers that the FTC filed a law... |
1 November 2007
07:55 GMT |
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Boy, web-scammers are definitely smart! One of their tactics is to send spam-scam e-mails to a smaller public but to make it their perfect target. For example, everyone gets spammy messages about penis-enlargement pills or devices - even women do! That's why they have quite a small effectiveness. But what if a s... |
9 October 2007
16:56 GMT |
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So there you have it! These guys have come up with the craziest ideas ever! Apparently other scams were not efficient so what do you think Nigerian spam-scammers thought of? As Sophos informs, they're sending their spammy messages to everyone they can, stating that they are a couple on a Christian Mission in Afr... |
9 October 2007
08:46 GMT |
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This is the story of Liao Peigui from Danzhou city, China. This guy was no average Joe - he had a lot of brains, as he was a computer engineer at only 20 years old! The sad part about all this is the fact that instead of using his great mind for a good purpose, he used it to scam people with a clone site. This is cer... |
8 October 2007
03:37 GMT |
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I guess that just about any domain has its scammers. You can basically trick people and steal their money in lots of ways, with lots of deals and the web just offers the perfect environment. But you already knew that, I guess. But what you might have not known is the fact that scammers have recently targeted the onli... |
5 October 2007
10:39 GMT |
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One type of spam has been blasted down as the US Securities and Exchange Commission has been suspending trading in the securities of companies that haven't provided adequate and accurate information about themselves to the investing public. In case you haven't already figured that out, I'm talking abou... |
5 October 2007
04:11 GMT |
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Security giant Symantec just released its spam monthly report for September. Things have changed a bit, since the month of August, but we are still being plagued by unwanted messages. PDF and image spam have went lower and lower in the chart - this just proves that they're ineffective. If image spam is down at 7... |
4 October 2007
12:41 GMT |
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You've heard the news, cyber-crime is worth more than drug dealing, but who knew that spam-scam netted, this year only, more than $2.1 billion. These numbers have been pointed out by Reuters that also informs the 2 billions are just in fake checks and arrests, so, who knows how much money is made through this me... |
4 October 2007
07:03 GMT |
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You know spam, it hits your inbox daily. Drugs, porn, shares, whatever, they're all the same, but, sometimes, I'm fascinated when I get something different! I wanted to write about this yesterday, but I had some hotter material to write about. Every weekend I venture inside my bulk folder and see what kind ... |
2 October 2007
09:27 GMT |
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I've recently read a piece of news on Sydney Morning Herald website. It said that the Queensland police are warning web users about a new e-mail scam that promises lottery winnings. I have no idea why they've dubbed this as "new" - this is the oldest trick in the book when it comes to spam-scam. I think I w... |
2 October 2007
06:12 GMT |
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You need to be weary of jobs you can find on the web. And when I say this I'm referring to jobs you can get by e-mail. There are two types of job offers you can get in your inbox - the ones from legitimate websites to which you have subscribed (those are OK) and the spammy ones (which you should be careful about... |
1 October 2007
03:04 GMT |
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Spammers are extending their activities now - if earlier they only used one lure to get people into falling for their scams, it seems that now they're getting better. Today (though not for the first time) I got a message on my blog - it was from another user, some "Britney" person I don't know. I believe th... |
28 September 2007
05:52 GMT |
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Some married couples are in business together, some open stores, mom and dad shops and similar things. But here's a case which is a bit awkward - this is the first case ever of an Internet investment scam in Malaysia. And as many other things that appear for the first time in a country - it comes with a little "... |
26 September 2007
08:47 GMT |
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