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Who or What is BobBear?
In my infrequent callouts to other websites that (like Scamdex) were created out of the blind fury experinced by seeing bad people taking money from good people, I have another site for you to take notice of. But first, a recap: When Scamdex started in 2004, there were very few sites about scams and Internet […]
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US-CERT Re-Issues Warning about Shopping Online
This is a notice that you should send to your family and friends, (especially the ‘silver surfers’) and maybe even stick on the ‘fridge door and on the side of your monitor, just so you remember. Help make this a Scam-Free Christmas! US-CERT Issues Warning about Cyber Shopping Online shopping has become a popular way […]
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PhishTank.com – Anti Phishing Website that Gets Results!
PhishTank.com – Anti Phishing Website! Here’s the thing – from now on, ANY TIME you get an email that sends you to a PayPal/Bank of America/Google Adsense/eBay/your-bank-name site that you know is a scam site [that just wants your login/password/credit card/bank details] – immediately report it to PhishTank.com. They are the database that many browsers […]
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DNS (whassat?) it’s a great tool against Scammers!
The DNS Route to Scam Protection Online. When you type in ‘www.scammingsite.com’ on your browser, a lookup is performed to translate the domain name into a unique address (IP Address) that all networked computers understand and which contains the path to the right server. Good people like those at SEO reseller website are very good […]
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Ghouls targetted in Virgina Tech Phishing Scam
To those people who want to see what happens when a madman shoots 32 other students, there is a sting out there just for them. Email Spam promises camera phone footage of the Virginia Tech tragedy, but the website just tries to grab your bank details instead. IT security and control firm Sophos has warned […]
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The Inevitable IRS Tax Refund Scam
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning of a new Internet scam based on a site masquerading as a member of the Free File Alliance. The site attempts to get taxpayers to file their information with them. The scammers then change the bank account details to their own and wait for the refund payments […]
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eBay feels the pain of phishing (at last)
A news report in eWeek has me chuckling ruefully. A Romanian calling himself ‘Vladuz’ is causing havoc at eBay and eBay has been forced to take notice. Due to a combination of spam phishing attempts by emails such as these, and (he claims) hacking of the eBay databases, he has been able to get access […]
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Are you using Firefox? – Why Not?
Firefox has many advantages over the competition, The main one being the toolbar add-in. The first one you should install is Google. The really really great thing about the Google toolbar is the builtin antip-phishing detection/protection system. The way this works is as follows: You read an email (eg. Purportedly from PayPal) that tells you […]