Archive for September, 2008

30
Sep

How ‘Carders’ Trade Your Stolen Personal Info

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Mac users who found themselves victims of a phishing scam. While scrolling through posts in every online subterranean criminal forum put on his laptop, Rosin explained that since “every American keeps more money in their savings

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29
Sep

Tithing

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Last week I mentioned the phishing scam we were victims of. Blogreader Jennifer wrote this comment: “My blessed sister in Christ, I have one question. Are you a tither? If you are then you have NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.”

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29
Sep

Bank Phishing Scam

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Emails like these are designed to trick you into revealing your internet banking username and password. Just delete them or forward them to your bank. ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Scotiabank Date: 2008/9/30

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29
Sep

Copa do mundo é tema de fraudes

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Comunidades do site de relacionamentos Orkut, “Trojan Horse”, “Eu já recebi um PHISHING SCAM” e “Segurança na Internet” ensinam e popularizam tais práticas. O Brasil ainda não tem uma lei específica para punir esse tipo de crime.

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29
Sep

Great Moments in Transparency

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Subject: RE: Correspondence Freddy Balzan I am notifying you of the following: I don’t know whether this is some kind of phishing scam or for real. It has the looks of a dressed-up Nigerian scam announcing that I have won a lottery or

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29
Sep

Beware: mobileme phishing scam

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Just got an email that’s a phising scam with mobileme .. one of the better ones I’ve seen to date so I thought I would post a heads up. It’s a directly copy of the Apple email that is used for the same purpose (payment processing

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29
Sep

Phone scam targeting members of Potlatch Credit Union

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Area residents are being warned of a telephone phishing scam targeting members of Potlatch Federal Credit Union. There have been several reports of credit union members receiving phone calls with this automated message: Potlatch Credit

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29
Sep

Business Threats through Social Engineering.

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A common greed phishing scam is to send an email that looks like your bank sent it asking people to fill out a questionnaire to receive money. People receive and email that looks like a customer review form from a bank.

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29
Sep

Silver Gilt Award Winning Flowers At Hampton Court Flower Show

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So surprised in fact that my first response to the email was to ask Sam if he thought this might be some elaborate phishing scam. A bit of double checking later and we soon found out that, nope, we really were nominated. Hooray!

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29
Sep

How 'Carders' Trade Your Stolen Personal Info

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Mac users who found themselves victims of a phishing scam. While scrolling through posts in an online underground criminal forum on his laptop, Rosin explained that since “every American keeps some money in their savings account,”

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