This “You have a virus” page caught my eye today, drawing as it does on multiple tech sources to try (and sort…
Tag: scam
Blurry previews and Facebook phishing
Here’s a Facebook phish which uses the incredibly old technique of blurring the supposed page underneath the login prompt. This is…
Soldiering on: the $5.6 million 419 scam
419 scams most commonly drop into your mailbox, but they do occasionally appear via other channels such as snail mail and…
Scammers sneak into customer support conversations on Twitter
We’ve looked at the social engineering tactic of inserting a fake account into a conversation with legitimate support channels in the past,…
Google’s featured snippets abused by SEO scammers
Many people wonder why websites, even very small ones such as personal blogs, ever get hacked. While there are many possible…
Avoid this “Authorize your Twitter account” phishing scam
“What’s going on” is a very good question. The answer to that question, is that you’ve had a narrow escape from a phish…
Our Pokemon Go blogpost becomes scammer bait
You know when you write about a Pokemon GO scam and casually mention how criminals use Lure Modules as bait for…
Pokemon GO: Pokecoins survey scams choose you
Virtual reality is when you wear a helmet and flail your arms around at a computer generated game, hopefully without walking…
419 scam: pay $180, receive $5,000 a week
Steer clear of the below 419 spam mail, which tries to make an offer you can’t possibly refuse (protip: totally refuse it)….
419 scam combines lottery win and family foundation
A 419 scam is in circulation which combines lottery winners and a US-based foundation to trick people into handing over personal…