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News | Scams

Hotel staff bust Hermes SMS scammer with suspiciously large number of cables

June 22, 2021 - If you’re in the UK, you’ve likely received a fake delivery SMS at this point. The original big driver for this...

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Cybercrime | News | Scams

Parents, beware of this SMS scam

August 17, 2016 - We’ve recently been alerted to a scam circulating within the UK and causing distress to parents or adults who knows someone...

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Cybercrime | News

SMS Scams: How To Defend Yourself

July 30, 2013 - Who doesn’t own a mobile phone nowadays? Whether you have an old-school flip phone or a newer smartphone, you may already...

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News | Threats

Porn on YouTube Leads to Premium-Rate SMS Scams

July 8, 2013 - Spammers are beating YouTube’s filters to upload pornographic images and tricking people into following a hyperlink to view more. We are...

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News | Privacy | Scams

SEC X account hacked to hawk crypto-scams

January 10, 2024 - The US Securities and Exchange Commission's X account was compromised to take advantage of an expected Bitcoin ETFs announcement.

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Threat Intelligence

Catching up with WoofLocker, the most elaborate traffic redirection scheme to tech support scams

August 17, 2023 - Back in January 2020, we blogged about a tech support scam campaign dubbed WoofLocker that was by far using the most complex...

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News | Personal

How to spot a scam

October 18, 2022 - Unfortunately, scams are a fact of life online. The virtual ties that bind us are international now: Our public telephone numbers,...

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News | Scams

Huge increase in smishing scams, warns IRS

October 4, 2022 - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a warning for taxpayers about a recent increase in IRS-themed smishing scams aimed at stealing...

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News

Scammers send fake ‘Energy Bills Support Scheme’ texts

September 21, 2022 - Watch out for an energy-themed scam being sent out via SMS. The message plays on energy price fears, similar to what...

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News

FCC warns of steep rise in phishing over SMS

August 3, 2022 - After the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) made a huge splash weeks ago when it told Google and Apple to pull TikTok from their...

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