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SMSmishing (SMS Text Phishing) – how to spot and avoid scams

Friday, May 18th, 2012




If the smartphones of ESET bloggers are any indication, scams executed via SMS text, known as smishing or SMS phishing, are on the rise. I don't do a lot of texting, which makes a smish easy to spot on my phone, but I just read an amazing statistic from a Pew report: Users 18 to ... Read More...

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Rihanna sex video trap used by Facebook scammers.. again

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
You would think that if there had been a widespread scam on Facebook two months ago, that it wouldn't be capable of spreading using identical wording now, wouldn't you? Sadly, it seems the answer is "no".

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Facebook clickjackers said to make over $1 million a month, agree to stop spam

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
A firm at the centre of allegations that its affiliates flooded Facebook with spam and clickjacking attacks has agreed to clean up its act - after earning up to $1.2 million per month in gross monthly revenues.

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Fraudsters spam out scams via SMS text messages

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Always take care about clicking on links sent to you out of the blue, even if they arrive on your mobile phone.

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Scam Video Game Startup Yanked From Kickstarter After Raising Thousands

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

A project soliciting funds for a new video game to compete with the likes of World of Warcraft and Skyrim has been pulled from the crowd funding website Kickstarter after it became clear that the proposal was a sham. 

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Free Ray-Bans and TOMS shoes scams hit Facebook

Friday, April 27th, 2012


Have you seen a message on Facebook saying that free pairs of Ray-Bans or TOMS shoes are being given away to users? Don't believe it.

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2012 Doomsday Scam Continues to Serve up Doom, Giftcards

Thursday, April 26th, 2012


If we survive the Mayan Apocalypse of 2012, does that mean we’re technically immortals? I’ve no idea, but it will probably mean we don’t see quite as many of these Doomsday Apocalypse scams doing the rounds on Facebook since at …

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Facebook teams up with Sophos and other security vendors

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012


Facebook has announced that it is teaming up with a number of security vendors, including Sophos.

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Steer Clear of Steam Cracker

Friday, April 20th, 2012




I’m all for a spot of Lovecraftian tentacled horror coming down from the sky and laying waste to all and sundry, but not when that same unfathomable horror is doing the same thing to my PC like in the below …

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Spam Promises Riches, Delivers Expensive Balloons

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012



You know what I like? Free money. You know what else I like? Free cars. You know what I like best of all? Balloons. If only there was a piece of email spam relevant to my interests where I could …

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