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Is this *your* passport being used by email scammers?

18
Jun
2012

Chances are that you see your fair share of email scams.You know the kind of thing – “you have won a Euro lottery” (not that you ever entered it), “you have been identified as the heir to a gigantic fortune” (not that you’re really related to the deceased individual) or simply “millions of dollars have […]

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OSX.Flashback – How to Turn Your Botnet into $$$

17
May
2012

Further analysis of the OSX.Flashback botnet has shed more light on how profitable such a botnet can be. Previously, we wrote that OSX.Flashback was generating money for its authors by displaying advertisements on compromised computers. We now have a much clearer idea of how many ads the attackers were displaying and how much those ads […]

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Police rescue man and daughter kidnapped by email scammers

14
Jan
2012

Most of us have received a 419 email scam. You know the kind – they claim that you’ve inherited a fortune from someone you’ve never heard of who came to a sticky end, or that your number has come up in a lottery that you never bought a ticket for. Sometimes they’re funny in their […]

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