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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Romance scams pick on divorced, lovelorn Research out of the UK today says that perhaps as many as 200,00 people have been victims of online romance scams and the same study says over 1 million people personally know someone who has been scammed by one of these heartless fraudsters.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Mobile malware exploits on the way, experts say Criminals are starting to find ways to make money by attacking smart phones, according to some security vendors. Kaspersky Lab identified more than 1,550 mobile malware signatures in September
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Scammers exploit hijacked Hotmail passwords Don’t touch that e-mail you got offering a new MacBook Pro for a mere $700. It’s all part of scam working off stolen Hotmail passwords...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Hackers hijack Obama's, Britney's Twitter accounts Thirty three celebrities including President-Elect Barack Obama and pop singer Britney Spears had their Twitter accounts hijacked by hackers using Twitter's own support tools 
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Competition Bureau tackles online cancer fraud The Competition Bureau recently launched Project False Hope, aimed at targeting online cancer-related health fraud and raising public awareness. Under this initiative dozens of Canadian-operated Web sites that offer cancer-related products that raise concerns under the Competition Act have been uncovered, according to the bureau.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Spammers roll out new tactics Summer’s warmer temperatures are upon us, but don’t expect cyber crooks to take any vacation. Here are a sampling of some of the most recent strategies and assaults uncovered by security experts we spoke to
Monday, August 21, 2006
Two held for duping thousands in vacation site scam Police have arrested a man and a woman suspected of running a vacation website scam that duped thousands of U.K. citizens. 
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Big bank goes phishing The thing about security is, well, security happens, and sometimes it doesn’t happen, and then sometimes it’s over the edge with mind-numbing incomprehensibility. I tend to notice these things.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
4 face 30 years jail in Nigerian e-mail scam Four people have been indicted and could face 30 years in prison for a variation on a popular scam in which e-mail senders claim they're trying to transfer money out of Nigeria, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Phony e-mail fools eBay A sophisticated phishing attack has proven to be so successful, it has tricked eBay Inc.'s own fraud investigations team into endorsing it as legitimate, according to an independent security consultant who reported the attack to eBay.
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
Visa, RCMP warn Canadians on phishing The use of authentic-looking, branded e-mails and Web sites that lure surfers into divulging personal information is one of the fastest-growing scams taking place on the Internet, according to one expert.
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Ireland blocks calls to 13 countries to thwart Net scam Ireland's telecom regulator said this week that is taking "extraordinary" measures to protect Internet users from rogue autodialer programs that hijack their modems and run up long-distance phone charges by suspending direct dialing to 13 countries, most of which are South Pacific islands. 
Sunday, January 18, 2004
IT, vendors scramble to combat phishing The rapid growth of so-called phishing scams has left IT managers, industry groups and technology vendors scrambling to deal with the e-mail fraud problem. 
Monday, February 10, 2003
Police help Microsoft stop security help desk scam Microsoft Corp. has successfully called in the help of U.K. police to stop an e-mail scam that urges users to call a special number to get help securing Windows.
Monday, November 25, 2002
U.S. feds crack huge identity theft ring U.S. federal investigators have uncovered a massive identity theft scheme that is thought to have spanned nearly three years and involved more than 30,000 victims. While the scam is believed to be the largest in U.S. history, one security specialist has said that technology is only partly to blame.
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
U.S. warns Nigeria over online fraud schemes Online schemes operating out of Nigeria that have defrauded victims out of tens of millions of dollars have become so pervasive that the U.S. government has given the West African country until November to take steps to decrease such crimes or face sanctions.
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