There’s been a lot of weird and frankly bizarre attacks over the course of 2022, nestled in amongst the usual ransomware…
Tag: 419
There is a semi-mythical scam which comes around every couple of years, like some sort of digital bad luck version of…
If you’ve dealt with a scammer, you’ll know that making up stories is their bread and butter. Think about it: Just…
It’s not every day you receive a big money offer from someone claiming to sit in political asylum, but here we…
It’s a sad day when we have to warn people about medical charity scams, or tax fakeouts, or even have a…
The recently departed Stephen Hawking is apparently back from the dead, now a target for scammers wanting to extract some quick…
We’ve mentioned before that 419 scams don’t always originate from Nigeria. It’s a very simple and popular scam that can be…
We’ve followed tech support scammers for quite a while at Malwarebytes. They’ve been of particular interest because of their preference for…
Scammers often come crawling out of the woodwork in all sorts of places you wouldn’t necessarily expect. This is to their…
Crowdsourced funding opportunities via Kickstarter, Patreon, and GoFundMe have removed many structural roadblocks for people to access capital quickly and conveniently….