Scams
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The Juror Scam
I recently received a summons for Jury duty. The date I was supposed to appear on coincides with a date I am...
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Phishing and Scamming: it’s a Taxing Occupation
SANS posted a story at the Internet Storm Center a couple of days ago that they were seeing fake email from the...
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The Ugly Marketing of Google Security
Engineers are really smart people who often know how to make something with no real world effectiveness work really well without effect....
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Who Can It Be Now?
Back on the 22nd of February, I wrote an entry on this blog called "Does Anybody Know WHOIS Out There?". This entry...
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iPad scammers target the unwary
The Apple iPad is the current gadget du jour amongst the digerati and has been seeing strong presales, with estimates as high...
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The Return of Jacques Tits
It has been a year since we last discussed fraudulent domain name registrar scams and we wanted to let people know that...
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What Do You Get When You Fall In Love?
Let's consider the words of the song "I'll Never Fall In Love" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David: "What do you get...
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Not So Civic Minded
At least as of this writing if you paste the following line into a Google search you’ll find something interesting… "2004 Honda...
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Haiti Scammer Tries to Scam ESET Blog Readers
A little over a week ago we received a comment in response to David Harley’s blog post that read as follows: InterNations...
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What if your Virusproof Computer Catches a Virus?
An Australian company claims to have launched a “virus-proof” computer. They even say “ A fast, easy to use, computer that never...
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THIS IS THE FUNNIEST VIDEO EVER!!!!!!
Oh brother, don’t tell me you fell for that one! All capital letters, lots of exclamation marks, the classic signs of bad...
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Fake ICE and Hot ICE
Randy’s post yesterday about putting an “In Case of Emergency” (ICE) prefix in front of one or more entries in the contact...
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419 and Mac scams
I forwarded this to myself from another account yesterday because I thought it was one of the laziest 419 scam messages I’d...
