By Michael OstermanSome Background Phishing attempts are widely distributed messages, normally delivered through email, that are designed to gather sensitive information from…
Tag: fraud
In the sea of tech support scams we come across, we sometimes forget how unscrupulous the people behind them can be….
Tax credit changes are something of a big deal in the UK at the moment, with an expected impact on finances…
I wonder how many of us would struggle to remember if we were owed a tax refund from 2013, given there’s…
Here’s one from the “My friend’s email account was hacked and this is what was sent out” pile: HELLO,Sorry to bother…
We begin the week with a fake “Microsoft Official Promotion” scam which attempts to convince recipients that they’ve won £450,000.They’re also apparently…
Credit card fraud is a huge problem, and by its very nature falls across the entire security spectrum – whether dealing…
It seems 419 mails are like buses this week – you wait ages for one to come, and then three show…
If we’re to believe everything our mailbox tells us, the United Nations Foundation are busy sending out missives informing lucky recipients…
There’s a NatWest phish in circulation which tries to scare recipients with warnings of logins from multiple cities which it claims is forbidden.Anybody…