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The fake BBC video Facebook scam returns

24

Sep

2011

It seems scammers have a bit of thing for spoofing BBC websites at the moment. Yesterday it was work from home scams, and last month it was a Facebook wheeze which (in a nutshell) went like this: “Lady Gaga is dead and here’s a BBC video to prove it, also click here.” Maybe the (unrelated) […]

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Bioshocked

22

Sep

2011

Just a quick heads up that there’s a Twitter spamrun targeting mentions of the videogame Bioshock Infinite. The promise: “My friend got Bioshock Infinite free”. Click to Enlarge The reality: Click to Enlarge A woman doing aeroplane impressions. Of course, people getting free copies of Bioshock Infinite would be quite a feat in itself, given […]

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Another round of bad ads in Bing

20

Sep

2011

We’re seeing some more bad adverts popping up in Bing – just like the original attack, these results are served with very basic search terms so it’s pretty easy to stumble into one of the bad URLs. The results below appear when searching for “Flash player download”: Click to Enlarge In the below example, the […]

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