by Matt on February 15, 2010
by Matt on November 29, 2009
Below is an excellent article from Fox News about cyberscams during the holiday season.
Getting a bargain on Cyber Monday seems compelling. But with online shopping comes the risk of cyberscams.
According to Consumer Reports, cybercriminals have bilked $8 billion from consumers in the past two years. And as Americans open their wallets and their browsers for [...]
Alissa Atkinson reports on nine online scams used by scammers to con Americans out of millions.
The scammers are so successful is because of the high number of unsuspecting victims and because of the amount of information available on the web.
“The problem now is that so much information is available on the Internet,” FBI spokesman Richard [...]
Pete Cashmore from Mashable is reporting that some Facebook users are receiving messages with links to goldbase.be and other .be websites with the subject line of “Look at This”.
DO NOT click the links to any of these sites:
goldbase.be
greenbuddy.be
silvertag.be
picoband.be
According to Mashable, if you receive any of these Facebook messages you should delete the message, clear your [...]
There is a new phishing scam is hitting Facebook users today. Facebook users receive a message from a friend that directs them to a site with an official looking Facebook login. When users login, the site captures the email and password, uploads malware to the computer, and then sends a similar message to [...]
by Matt on April 10, 2009
Education
Phishing (pronounced “fishing”) is a computing scam wherein a criminal attempts to steal victims’ sensitive personal information such as social security and credit card numbers, user IDs and passwords.
The process most often starts with an official-looking e-mail from a bank, financial or retail establishment that contains a link which directs potential victims to fake, but [...]