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Scam Of The Week: FTC Refund Phishing Phraud
Scam Of The Week: FTC Refund Phishing Phraud Warn your employees, friends and family Hi, There is a new Scam Of The Week where bad guys are trying to trick people into clicking on phishing links to receive an FTC refund, with the twist that the refund is actually real. The FTC first took action […]
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Golden 1 Phone Scam hits Sacramento
Social engineering is an approach used to gain unauthorized access to or acquisition of information assets. This approach relies on misrepresentation and the trusting nature of individuals, and is often carried out through the use of phishing telephone calls or email. A phishing telephone call or phishing email may sound or look as though it […]
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Round-up of Internet Scams in the News
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Dont try to scam Scamdex, Ok?
I give my cellphone number out to very few people. Friends, relatives, Scamdex-related business and the occasional on-line order, if they insist. So when I get a call, it’s normally someone I know personally or business. So I was surprised to get a call from an outfit called ‘Auction Profits LLC’ (http://www.auctionprofitsllc.com) , asking me […]
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Canadian Phone Scam runs up Big Long distance charges
Canadian Telecom company, SaskTel is warning customers to be on the look-out for a telephone scam that could lead to unwanted long distance charges. In this scam, a person calls a customer claiming there has been an accident or some other incident. The caller then requests that the customer dial *72 followed by a long-distance […]