Posts Tagged ‘email scams’

Spring Brings Tax-related Scams, Spams, Phish, Malware, and the IRS

Mar

2012

Spring is here and that means scam artists are thinking about income taxes and the IRS. Not that scam artists pay income taxes, they just know taxes and any mention of the IRS is a good way to get your attention, which explains a steady stream of deceptive emails targeting tax-paying Americans who now have […]

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Spam Called “Google Pharmacy” is In the Wild

Mar

2012

When Aaron Brown (Senior Product Manager) and Bill Weihl (Green Energy Czar) announced that Google will be retiring its “personal health record service” Google Health, who would have thought that the company will find itself “involved” once again with rogue pharmaceutical companies after unknowingly profiting from their ads? click to enlarge Of course, this time […]

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The “I’m in trouble” massive malware outbreak

Dec

2011

A series of massive email outbreaks have been intercepted and analyzed by Commtouch Labs over the last several days with subjects like “Need your help!” and “I’m in trouble,” containing links that lead to malware downloads. They are being spammed around the world at rates of hundreds of thousands of messages per day.Many Facebook and […]

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