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Emails purporting to come from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) inform recipients that they have an unclaimed tax refund. In reality, the notifications have nothing to do with HMRC.
Entitled “Automated Tax Refund Notification,” the bogus messages read something like this:
“Unclaimed Tax Refund ... |
18 June 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Brandon Dixon of 9bplus has come across an interesting email that appears to be sent by NetTraveler, the Chinese cyber espionage group whose activities were exposed by Kaspersky earlier this month. According to the security researcher, the email is entitled “CIA’s ‘prism Watchlist’” and... |
18 June 2013
10:53 GMT |
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Videos of man-eating snakes, of girls doing indecent things, and videos of fights, they've all been used as bait at some point by scammers who wanted to lure unsuspecting Facebook users to their phishing sites or survey scams. Now, cybercrooks are trying to lure Facebook customers with a video purporting to sho... |
18 June 2013
03:51 GMT |
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A giveaway scam hosted on Tumblr is designed to lure unsuspecting users to a “free Steam games” websites by promising them that they can win a Nikon camera if they donate to cancer research.
According to ThreatTrack Security experts who have analyzed the scam, the scammy post appears to be hosted on a bl... |
17 June 2013
13:41 GMT |
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As the popularity of Vine – Twitter's new mobile video sharing app – grows, scammers are turning their attention to it more and more. The first news about Vine spam emerged in May, when The BlockTV reported that several spam accounts started offering “free Vine followers.” Last wee... |
17 June 2013
12:51 GMT |
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Recent studies published by IT security firms have revealed that the old pump and dump spam is back. Security researcher Conrad Longmore has come across one spam campaign that appears to be highly lucrative for scammers.
According to the expert, someone purchased millions of shares for a company called Biostem US Co... |
17 June 2013
04:15 GMT |
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On Thursday, Internet users who searched for “mtgox” on Yahoo! or Bing were lured to a phishing website hosted on mtpox.com.
Security expert Brian Krebs reported that when users searched for “mtgox” on one of the two search engines, the first result appeared to be a paid or sponsored ad... |
14 June 2013
15:21 GMT |
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy 2013 is taking place these days in England and Wales and, as with most major events, cybercriminals are leveraging the occasion in one of their scam campaigns.
Symantec experts have spotted scam emails that purport to come from the ICC.
“International ... |
14 June 2013
10:15 GMT |
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As it is usually the case whenever new Apple products are involved, an iOS 7 scam is making the rounds claiming to give you the IPSW file for iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, or iPhone 5, in exchange for your phone number.
In what looks like your typical mobile subscription scam, the people behind “ios7leak [dot] blogspot... |
14 June 2013
03:56 GMT |
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Johnny Alexander Melo, aged 36, of Miramar, Florida, has been sentenced to 60 months in prison and ordered to pay $18,594 (€13,900) to the IRS for his involvement in an identity theft tax refund scheme.
The sentence comes after Melo pleaded guilty to one count of possession of five or more identification docume... |
12 June 2013
13:41 GMT |
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Cybercriminals are trying to get users to hand over credentials for their Gmail accounts. However, some of them are not trying too hard.
Deepanker Verma of Techlomedia reports identifying a Google phishing scam that starts with emails entitled “Sign In From Unauthorized Device.” The emails are poorly wri... |
12 June 2013
10:45 GMT |
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Ticketmaster, the popular Australian ticketing service, is warning customers about scam emails, apparently coming from “ticket@ticketmaster.com.au,” which inform recipients that they have been billed for purchasing tickets.
“If you have received a non-valid Ticketmaster Confirmation Email from &ls... |
12 June 2013
05:52 GMT |
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Two Romanian nationals – Bogdan Boceanu, 30, and Andrei Bolovan, 29 – have been sentenced to 80, respectively 27 months in prison for their role in a massive phishing scheme that targeted the customers of eBay and several financial companies. The two fraudsters, along with 17 other Romanian citizens, wer... |
12 June 2013
03:03 GMT |
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Father’s Day is just around the corner (June 16) and as many users are rushing to do some last minute shopping, scammers and spammers are taking advantage of the opportunity. Symantec has spotted several spam campaigns. Some of them advertise replica watches and shady products and services, while others lure u... |
11 June 2013
14:11 GMT |
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If you like dancing competitions, you’re probably aware that the international competition known as Dance Grand Prix Europe is set to start soon. Dancers from all over the world are expected to attend the competition that’s scheduled to take place between June 12 and June 16 in Spain.
Symantec experts re... |
11 June 2013
10:21 GMT |
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Experts warn mobile phone users to be on the lookout for a phone spam campaign which informs them that their Google accounts have been hacked.
According to ThreatTrack Security experts, the spam messages read something like this: “Your Google Account has been hacked. Reply NOW to take a call to verify your acc... |
11 June 2013
09:21 GMT |
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If you live in the state of Pennsylvania, be on the alert about a phone scam involving the Rite Aid drugstore and a so-called “sweepstake” that will make you rich… on the condition you pay a certain amount for taxes. Authorities have issued an alert about the Rite Aid scam which seems to target t... |
11 June 2013
04:59 GMT |
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is accepting donations from individuals who want to help Syrian refugees. While there’s nothing wrong with wanting to help those in need, you must beware of the many donation scam sites set up by fraudsters.
McAfee Senior Threat Researcher Francois Page... |
11 June 2013
04:45 GMT |
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A cool-looking Facebook login page that promises users access to content related to the Real Madrid Football Club, one of the most popular clubs in the world, is likely to attract a lot of people. Cybercriminals are relying on this in an attempt to trick Facebook members into handing over their credentials.
Symantec... |
11 June 2013
02:43 GMT |
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The Dragon Boat Festival, or the Duanwu Festival, celebrated this year by the Chinese and other East Asian and Southeast Asian societies on June 12, has attracted the attention of spammers. Symantec reports that it has blocked a large amount of spam emails associated with the festival. During the Dragon Boat Festiv... |
10 June 2013
17:51 GMT |
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The Adsense Extreme WordPress plugin, advertised as a plugin that’s designed to optimize ads and help users increase their profits, has been removed from WordPress.org after users noticed that it was secretly injecting ads from a different Google AdSense account.
Users are accusing Marion Gentile, the plugin&r... |
10 June 2013
03:52 GMT |
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Last week, we learned that spammers were abusing various open redirect vulnerabilities, including one in CNN, Yahoo and Ask.com, to lure unsuspecting users to a shady miracle diet website.
The scam website is still live and, as it turns out, the scammers don’t even need to abuse website vulnerabilities t... |
10 June 2013
03:15 GMT |
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Tesco customers are not the only ones targeted with customer satisfaction survey scams. Experts have identified such a scam aimed at customers of the National Australia Bank (NAB).
Hoax Slayer has found bogus emails entitled “NAB Memeber Satisfaction Survey! 100$ Money Guaranteed!”
They read the follow... |
7 June 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Reports have been coming in about a new spam run that’s designed to trick Barclays customers into visiting a bogus website.
Entitled “Payment Alert on Your Barclays Account” or “Payment Alert on Your Account,” the emails read something like this:
“Online Banking Mobile Aler... |
7 June 2013
14:11 GMT |
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There’s almost one month until the US celebrates its Independence Day, but cybercriminals have already started leveraging the big event in their schemes.
Dynamoo’s Blog has issued an alert regarding a spam campaign that’s designed to distribute malware with the aid of phony notifications entitled &... |
7 June 2013
10:46 GMT |
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PayPal has announced quite a few users that they've won €500 ($662). The good news is that it wasn't a phishing attempt. The bad news is that they haven't actually won anything, either. Instead, PayPal sent the email in error to a lot more people than it wanted to. There is, in fact, a contest ... |
7 June 2013
08:31 GMT |
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Experts have issued an alert to warn users about bogus “Parcel has been found” notifications apparently coming from US-based delivery company United Parcel Service, or UPS.
According to Hoax Slayer, the emails read something like this: “Dear Client, Due to the Christmas time postal service overload... |
7 June 2013
05:58 GMT |
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Bitdefender warns that cybercriminals have resurrected an old scam aimed at company executives. The scammers send out emails to executives, informing them that they’ve been selected for the “Top 100 Executives Magazine.” “This is your final notice. We previously attempted to contact you regar... |
7 June 2013
05:38 GMT |
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Several companies have implemented two-factor authentication over the past period, including Twitter and LinkedIn. According to experts from Zscaler, cybercriminals are taking advantage of these announcements to increase the chances of success for their scams. A perfect example is a recent spam campaign that’... |
6 June 2013
14:41 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, a phishing scam designed to trick Tesco customers into handing over their personal and financial details started making the rounds. According to reports, the campaign is still going strong. Potential victims receive emails in which they’re informed that they can get paid for taking part in a T... |
6 June 2013
10:28 GMT |
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Anna Ayala of California, known in the press as the chili-finger lady for trying to scam Wendy's by placing a severed finger inside her meal and asking for compensation, will be going back to jail. As I reported, Ayala mislead the police by hiding her son's accidental gun shot and claiming two men had shot... |
6 June 2013
07:43 GMT |
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A new series of phishing sites impersonating Mt.Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange service, have been spotted by security experts.
Symantec says cybercriminals have set up bogus Mt.Gox websites on .org, .net, .de and .co.uk top-level domains (TLDs).
For instance, mtgox.org is designed to install a piece of malware o... |
5 June 2013
11:31 GMT |
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Spam campaigns that rely on bogus MMS message notifications to distribute malware have been around for quite some time. Back in March, Abuse.ch identified fake Swisscom and T-Mobile emails targeting German and Swiss users.
Today, AVG Technologies experts have reported spotting a T-Mobile MMS spam campaign aimed at I... |
5 June 2013
04:55 GMT |
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Security experts have identified yet another scam in which a Flickr profile is used to lure internauts to scammy websites. ThreatTrack Security’s Chris Boyd reports identifying one Flickr profile that’s leading users to a couple of scam sites hosted on Blogspot. One of them advertises free Amazon gift ca... |
4 June 2013
16:01 GMT |
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In late March, Cisco reported identifying significant activity related to spam email messages purporting to contain a “secured message.”
According to Conrad Longmore of Dynamoo’s Blog, the spam emails are still doing the rounds.
The latest version of the malicious emails bears the “Fiserv Se... |
4 June 2013
15:01 GMT |
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What would you do if you received an email entitled “Check the attachment you have to react somehow to this picture”? What if I told you that the email reads something like this: “I got to show you this picture in attachment. I can’t tell who gave it to me sorry but this chick looks a lot lik... |
4 June 2013
10:34 GMT |
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The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued an alert to warn users about a new scam.
“If you are planning to buy a vehicle online, beware. Cyber criminals are posting ads on the Internet without pictures, providing photos only upon request. Sometimes these images are sent as attachments, o... |
4 June 2013
10:25 GMT |
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Cybercriminals have come up with a clever way to get Turkish users to hand over their Facebook account credentials. They’re abusing the name of the Turkish Police Force to make their scam more genuine-looking.
According to Symantec, the phishing site – located on a free hosting service – purports t... |
4 June 2013
05:33 GMT |
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Vodafone customers should be on the lookout these days for malicious emails entitled “Managing your Vodafone account online for free.”
The bogus emails, identified by Hoax Slayer, read something like this:
“Managing your Vodafone account online. Thank you for updating your personal details.
We ar... |
4 June 2013
03:00 GMT |
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SunTrust customers are advised to be on the lookout for bank notifications entitled “Your SunTrust Activity Summary.” The emails might look legitimate, but they’re actually part of a phishing scam that’s designed to trick users into handing over their details.
The emails, identified by Hoax S... |
3 June 2013
16:11 GMT |
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The name of Chinese energy company China Shenhua Energy Company Limited (CSEC) is being utilized by fraudsters in an advance fee scam.
The scammy email that landed in our inboxes, apparently coming from a legitimate China Shenhua Energy Company Limited address, reads something like this:
“We at the China Shen... |
3 June 2013
15:21 GMT |
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Some phishing scams are so efficient that they’re kept active by cybercriminals for many years. One perfect example is the old “Mailbox Server Alert!!!” scam that’s been doing the rounds since early 2011.
The malicious emails read something like this:
“Your two incoming mails were plac... |
1 June 2013
16:41 GMT |
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Cloning Facebook profile is a practice used by cybercriminals to scam people for quite some time now. However, over the past week, reports have been coming in from South Africa about hundreds of Facebook profiles being cloned.
The cloned accounts are used by the crooks to befriend the victim’s friends and abus... |
1 June 2013
13:21 GMT |
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Earlier this week, a legitimate-looking order confirmation notification for a 55-inch Sony LED TV set, apparently coming from Amazon, landed in one of our inboxes. At the time, we didn’t make much of it because there weren’t any reports about a widespread spam campaign.
However, it turns out that the ema... |
1 June 2013
04:10 GMT |
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ThreatTrack Security’s Jovi Umawing has published an interesting advisory on how users can keep their online social life secure. With all the malware, phishing and scams that are plaguing the Internet, it’s difficult for users not to fall victim to cyber threats while using social media services. Howeve... |
31 May 2013
08:58 GMT |
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Internet users, particularly the employees of hotels and tourism firms, are advised to be on the lookout for the latest fraud emails that are making the rounds.
Kaspersky experts have come across several messages that appear to come from individuals who want to make a reservation at a hotel, or ones purporting to re... |
30 May 2013
15:31 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Cisco identified a massive Canadian pharmacy campaign that apparently relied on the notorious Kelihos botnet to send out a large quantity of spam emails entitled “Only 24 Hours Left to Shop.”
While such spam campaigns are not uncommon, there is one interesting aspect about this one. The spamm... |
30 May 2013
03:43 GMT |
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Several advisories have been published over the past few days – including by Scambook, Hoax Slayer and Facecrooks – regarding a new Facebook phishing scam.
It all starts with a message purporting to come from Facebook. The notification informs recipients about a new security feature called “Fa... |
29 May 2013
18:01 GMT |
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