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Email Fraud Alert received from: Jolene I recently received an email with this subject line: Blackberry Lottery Award Promotion Program Notification which I believe to be an attempt at defrauding me. The full contents of the e-mail appear below: Jan 28 to undisclosed recipients Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to …
Email Fraud Alert received from: Edward I recently received an email with this subject line: Western Union Payment which I believe to be an attempt at defrauding me. The full contents of the e-mail appear below: FROM WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER. COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC/ADDRESS 455 AGBOKOU,ANKPA ROAD WEB SITE.WWW.WESTERNUNION.COM Mr. Johnson Mark) OFFICER INCHARGE TELL: …
Email Fraud Alert received from: Yusuf I recently received an email with this subject line: Highly Important, Reply Asap. which I believe to be an attempt at defrauding me. The full contents of the e-mail appear below: I have a genuine reasons for contacting you for this business transaction. Please, read the complete message in …
A phishing e-mail campaign exploiting consumers of Skype is presently circulating online, while hitting their inboxes, published securitynewsdaily.com dated March 1, 2012. Bearing a caption: “Your Skype account needs update,” the fake electronic mail, addressing recipients with a “Hello,” proceeds further. It tells that the reader will be led onto several web-pages for identifying his …
Q: I just got an e-mail message claiming to be from the Better Business Bureau. It said there was a complaint about my business and provided a link to a report. I am suspicious. Should I be? A: Yes. The Better Business Bureau reports a number of “complaint report” messages going around. These appear to …
Faculty and staff at Oklahoma State University (OSU) are receiving phishing e-mails and calls from cyber crooks in the guise of American Express Credit Card, and being questioned over private information related to their OSU purchase card, or P-card, as reported in the ocolly website on March 1, 2012. P-card was in the form of …
(Photo credit: Thinkstock) Stacy Cowley, CNNMoney SAN FRANCISCO — If you use LinkedIn, you’ve probably told the site where you work, what you do and who you work with. That’s a gold mine for hackers, who are increasingly savvy in using that kind of public — but personal — information for pinpoint attacks. It’s called …