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Video of Gadhafi’s Death Being Used for Spam

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Oct

2011

We’ve been seeing a particular social engineering lure in spam runs in the past, where spammers leverage the death of a known celebrity or political figure. Recent examples of this include the death of Steve Jobs, and Amy Winehouse. In this spam run using Gadhafi’s death, however, a more compelling lure is being used to […]

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Survey Scams as Cross-Platform Threats

24

Oct

2011

Tweet For some time now we’ve been reporting about Facebook scams involving surveys that ask for victims’ mobile numbers. These have become rampant, and have used many different lures like Google+ invites and free Breaking Dawn Part 2 movie tickets Another good example is a Facebook page we recently encountered, one claiming to be a […]

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Spammers Promote Steve Jobs Bogus Charity Fund

22

Oct

2011

Even after a few weeks following Steve Jobs’ death, spammers are still taking advantage of his demise. We have previously reported about this in the following blog entries: Cybercriminals Remember Steve Jobs Through Facebook Scam Steve Jobs Proclaimed Alive by Spam This time, we received sample spammed messages promoting a supposed charity fund for young […]

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