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Nigerian Scammer Sentenced to 12 years in Prison in Cape Town for Conducting Online Dating Scam and Making R 1.2m. The 31-year-old Nigerian citizen Ndubusi Ifediora has agreed to a plea and sentence agreement in a Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court for utilizing an online dating website to con two females and making R 1.2m […]
Facebook’s team is currently working on a brand new tool aimed at reducing the incidences of harassment on the social network by identifying one of the sources This new feature will automatically alert the user if it detects that his or her account is being impersonated by some and if their profile picture and username […]
A Twitter bot @FFD8FFDB has been found posting cam images on the Internet and it’s creepy. A while ago we reported about a creepy website was showing live footage from 73,000 private security cameras. Now, a Twitter Bot with the aforementioned account name is posting uncanny images with random, incomprehensible pieces to text regularly. Only recently, the […]
Scammers have been targeting Microsoft customers since the very first day — The only change in their tactic is that it’s getting sophisticated every day. Cyber scammers have found a new way of placing malware in a user’s PC, what they are doing is calling users as Microsoft tech support and are telling them that there […]
Hackers have again attacked PayPal but this time by making a clone site that even had an SSL certificate of the World Bank Domain. What happened is that hackers exploited a site operated by the World Bank Group and in place of the original site hosted a PayPal phishing site. What made the scam look […]
New Dislike button scam has started to make rounds on the Facebook, one of the most popular and widely used social media networks. This scam is expected to spread far and wide because of its nature and how the Facebook users are anxiously waiting to get their hands on the dislike button. For those readers […]
It is no secret how even the world’s most unfortunate tragedies such as air crashes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis are capitalized on by cybercriminals to employ scams and extort money. Thus, with the recent earthquake disaster that befell Nepal, citizens are encouraged to be more cautious and vigilant with probable scams associated with the incident. […]
An email, which appears to be sent from eBay, informs that due to the inaccuracy of your credit card information, your account has been suspended. The user is asked to click on a link titled “Confirm Your Registration” to eliminate suspension. However, eBay is not the real sender of this email and in reality it […]