Scams
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Free WiFi: Price? All your personal information
Sitting in an airport you rarely frequent, you grab your laptop and snap out a couple e-mails to send, and look, there’s...
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419: UK lets the Good Times Roll
...It's a 419 (Advance Fee Fraud) message, of course. Stripped of the pseudo-governmental flim-flam, the core of the message is that they...
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Coreflood dries up
The US Department of Justice's announcement yesterday of the takedown of the command and control (C&C) servers for the Coreflood bots (detected...
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Coreflood Reduced to a Backwater
Here’s a little information from ESET’s point of view about the Coreflood botnet, whose C&C (Command and Control) servers were taken down...
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Disaster Scams and Resources
I've added some commentary and resources on the Japan earthquake/tsunami disasters to an independent blog I maintain that specializes in hoaxes, scams and...
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Stealing from Santa (Scammers’ Holiday Season)
My colleague Urban Schrott, from ESET Ireland, wrote a nice feature article for our monthly ThreatSense report (which should be available shortly...
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Scam of the Day AKA She Loves You Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
What a touching email. Mercy saw my profile and wants to know more about me. She even tells me “please don't forget...
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Social Media: 5 Unexpected Threats
...a piece at Discovery News about 5 Unexpected Threats of Online Social Networking...
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Earthquake in New Zealand likely to bring cybershocks
[UPDATE #1 at 12:15PM: Added more information about location of earthquake and prior scams. AG] We have just heard about the early September...
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You Have to be a Real Cool Cat!!!
You have to be a real cool cat to get into the Cambridge Who’s Who registry. A few months ago I received...
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When Hell Freezes Over!
I received an email today that was funny to me, but not to someone who is unsuspecting. I’ll let you read it....
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40Beware of Travelocity and Yahoo Travel
I recently read a column on Chris Elliott’s travel site warning of a truly dishonest and despicable practice that Yahoo Travel and...
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The Jury Duty Scam
A couple of months ago I posted a blog while flying at about 30,000 feet. That was a first for me and...
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Truly Touching
I was greeted with the most charming email this morning. A young lady is so impressed with me that she wants to...
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Ohhhh Free Money!!!
I received the following email recently: Greetings, Please forgive me for the unofficial way of reaching you via email Contacting you is...
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A New Scam?
David Harley sent me a link to an article about a scam I wasn’t familiar with. I wouldn’t really call it a...
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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...
