Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A new website has been built to educate British online consumers about the dangers of phishing scams.
The Phishing IQ Test has been set up with faux emails from banks and e-commerce vendors, and users are invited to judge whether they are legitimate or not.
A results page reveals the correct answers ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
From the scam of a lifetime department: A spammer in our Broadband Tweaks forum is pushing a referral scam service called Juice Boost, which promises users 2Mbps speeds for free, anywhere there's a phone line, using "State-of-the-art data compression, byte stream and ultimate data burst technology". The service also promises ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
"On September 22, 2003 I was first made aware of this company's (fictitious) display product known as the Grand Canyon. I looked briefly at the press release on their site and thought: "oh that's cool, but too exotic for me." On Thursday the 25th, I somehow got the idea that ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Do you have a Paypal account? If so, then you need to be aware that, once again, someone is trying to steal your password.These scams are usually easy to spot because Paypal always logs you into your account using a secure page (https:// means secure). In this case, however, the ...
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