Categories: News Tags: Scam Tags: spam Tags: phish Tags: BEC Tags: business email compromise Tags: romance Tags: fake Tags: fraud Tags: wire Tags: money mule We take a look at a scammer, involved in both BEC fraud and romance scams, who has been jailed for a whopping 25 years. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: social media Tags: twitter Tags: luggage Tags: airline Tags: terminal Tags: scam Tags: fake Tags: fraud Tags: send money Fake customer support accounts are extracting cash from people looking for some help on Twitter. |
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Read moreCategories: Privacy Tags: fraud Tags: social media UK based Action Fraud is warning of hacked social media accounts posting indecent images of children. We dig into available information. |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:04:26 +0000
UK based Action Fraud is warning of hacked social media accounts posting indecent images of children. We dig into available information.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:45:01 +0000
The FBI has issued a warning about cryptocurrency scams on LinkedIn. We see what the scammers are up to and how you can avoid them.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 13:24:46 +0000
Interpol’s annual First Light project has gone global for the second time. We take a look at the results, findings, and trends.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:05:35 +0000
Law enforcement has seized an underground marketplace trading in SSNs and other personal data. We take a look at how they did it.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 13:04:48 +0000
Threat actors are using a new method to take over WhatsApp accounts. It starts with tricking the victim into forwarding their calls.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 16:44:54 +0000
An organisation dedicated to providing food for those in need suffered a double-whammy of fraud costing them upwards of $63,000.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 20:06:48 +0000
Virtual kidnap attempts are big business for criminals. We offer some steps to minimise the risk of this awful attempt at fraud.
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