Phishing

In the past several days the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office has learned that some cell phone users have been receiving fake text messages. There are two messages in particular that we want to warn citizens about, according to DA’s Office Enforcement Officer Dave Edwards. “The first begins: ‘Dear Walmart Shopper, Congratulations you have just …

Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2012 11:41 pm | Updated: 1:00 am, Fri Apr 13, 2012. Students fall victim to phishing scam By Samantha Bilharz/Managing Editor The Daily Eastern News | 1 comment About 13 hundred people on Eastern’s network fell victim to an email phishing scam on Wednesday. The spam email was sent out around 8 …

While phishing and malware increased in the first quarter, spam levels stayed constant Security provider eleven announced on Friday that results from its April 2012 email security report indicate that phishing emails increased by 169.6 percent in the first quarter of 2012. In the same quarter, malware emails increased by 83.7 percent. These results come …

An esteemed Telecom company, Verizon lately alerted its clients to one fresh phishing e-mail campaign, which’s rapidly proliferating online, while hitting their inboxes, published Wirelessandmobilenews.com in news dated April 3, 2012. Posing as a message from Verizon, the fake electronic mail tells the recipient that his latest bill pertaining to his account, currently, can be …

Macworld received a phishing email this morning claiming to be from the United Kingdom Apple Store and offering us a “Bonus Offer” for being long-term customers. In the wake of Flashback, we thought we should take this opportunity to outline Apple’s advice for avoiding such schemes.  The email claimed that thanks to our “loyalty” we are …

CIO – Email phishing scams have grown more sophisticated since they first began popping up in corporate inboxes in the 1990s. Early phishing emails were relatively easy to detect as they were characterized by poor grammar and spelling. No legitimate business would send an email to customers chockfull of typos. As email users grew wary …

Customers of HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, are currently being targeted with a fake warning of account suspension: The email claims that someone tried to access the user’s account and failed, and that the bank suspended the account in order to protect the customer. Unfortunately, the offered …

Iowa issues order to Nebraska-based contractorApril 12, 2012 16:19 GMT %reldate(2012-04-12T16:17:07 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Polk County judge has ordered a Nebraska-based contractor to follow Iowa’s consumer fraud and door-to-door sales laws. A news release from the office of Iowa Attorney General Thomas Miller says the judge also ordered the company, NationWide Construction …

Cyber crime cases, phishing and transmission of obscene content in electronic form has seen a rise in Andhra Pradesh which has also witnessed a two-fold increase in the arrest of cyber offenders in 2011. From 197 cyber crime cases reported in 2010, the number went up to 350 in 2011 and the cases were registered …

SEATTLE — Text mail spam is especially annoying, since you pay for that message unless you have an unlimited plan. It’s also a growing problem. The New York Times reports that cell phone users in the U.S. received an estimated 4.5 billion spam texts last year. That’s more than double the 2.2 billion text spam …

<!– –> Tweet – A A A + Written by Lauren Melvin <!– –>      Greensboro, NC — US Airways is warning customers about e-mails that claim to be from them. The emails are called phishing. US Airways officials said some customers are getting them, but so are people who haven’t even booked flights. Some …

TULSA – Brad sent the latest from his inbox to ours when he got an email claiming to be from Cox Communications asking for his password.       “I spoke with Cox about this and they said it was a scam trying to get info so thought I would send it on to you so you …

SEATTLE — Text mail spam is especially annoying, since you pay for that message unless you have an unlimited plan. It’s also a growing problem. The New York Times reports that cell phone users in the U.S. received an estimated 4.5 billion spam texts last year. That’s more than double the 2.2 billion text spam …

Cyber crime cases, phishing and transmission of obscene content in electronic form has seen a rise in Andhra Pradesh which has also witnessed a two-fold increase in the arrest of cyber offenders in 2011. From 197 cyber crime cases reported in 2010, the number went up to 350 in 2011 and the cases were registered …

Nationals holding US visas were recently cautioned about one phishing e-mail that supposedly originated from the ‘US Department of State,’ published visabureau.com dated March 29, 2012. In its warning, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that the persuasive electronic mails contained a formal-appearing caption while notified the visa-holders about them being amongst the 50,000 …

KOCHI: Is online banking safe? Taking a cue from the police after the first incident of phishing that occurred in Kochi in which an online fraudster transferred Rs 13.5 lakh from the account of a doctor, it has been confirmed that Internet banking is not 100 per cent safe, even after taking all precautions. According …

A 47-year-old mechanic from Santa Clarita was killed yesterday while working on a disabled tow truck that rolled over him in Chino, say San Bernardino County coroner’s officials. Jose Fernando Morales died at the scene of the 3:39 p.m. accident Monday in an industrial park along the 4700 block of Chino Avenue. Chino police are …

CUNA Mutual Group has sent a risk alert to its bonded credit unions urging them to warn members about possible phishing attempts in the wake of the data security breach at Global Payments Inc. The payments processor announced March 30 that it had uncovered the breach early in the month and that it had “immediately …

The newest mode of phishing frauds is an email from a sender posing as slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s wife. The email urges the recipient to help her get back huge investments Gaddafi made in financial companies in African countries. The phishing mails are sent in bulk to thousands of random email addresses. “Earlier they …

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has issued an urgent scam e-mail alert threatening business and consumers on receiving anxious calls from business owners, reported htrnews on 29 March, 2012. The scam e-mail uses the name of BBB in issuing a threat to business owners and highlights about receiving several complains regarding many unauthorized transaction from …