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100 texts a day limit? India tries to combat mobile phone spam

27

Sep

2011

New spam regulations, introduced in India, limit the users of mobile phones to sending only 100 texts per day. The reason? To stop the growing problem of SMS text spam. Cellphone usage is huge in India, with more than 700 million subscribers. But with that popularity comes the problem of users being constantly plagued with […]

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Automated Skype calls spread fake anti-virus warning [VIDEO]

19

Sep

2011

As more and more people become acquainted by the tricks used by internet scammers and cybercriminals, so they are pressed to find new social engineering tricks in their hope of tricking the unwary. One of the schemes we have heard of involves unsolicited calls via Skype, where an automated message (what I like to call […]

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Phone scam on the rise, some tips to avoid becoming victims.

04

Jul

2011

It has been observed that cyber criminals are targeting innocent elderly people at home. The scam works by criminals posing as computer security engineer who is actively calling people at home. The scammer indicates on phone that their computer is at risk from Internet threats and they are computer security personnel calling them to fix […]

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