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NatWest Bank Alert of Unauthorized Access Is a Scam

05

Jul

2014

Some computer users have received a fake email from the NatWest Bank, luring them to click on a link in order to log in and verify, update, or confirm their account information.The email is in HTML, which makes clicking on the provided URL and reaching the phishing site easy. Should the user trust the legitimacy […]

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Phishing Scam At the Top of Fake Emails in May

01

Jul

2014

In the month of May, the amount of fake email decreased by 1.3%. compared to April, 2014 but the prevalent attack type was still phishing, followed by strains of a ZeuS/Zbot dropper.The average weekly spam percentage for the month of May was 69.8% according to a report from Kaspersky security firm. In the third week […]

Category Cyber-crime Email security Phishing Security Threats & Malware Written by Softpedia 0 Comments

Tax evasion? Don’t need that! Spam email promises tax refund! – Fake German Federal Central Tax Office (FCTO) feedback wants to phish sensitive user data

29

Jun

2012

Tax payers are currently waiting for their tax office’s feedback and the fake email sent to users’ inboxes suggests being a legitimate feedback with a promised tax refund of almost ?235. We’ve seen other mails with different refund values, but the scheme remains the same. The outward appearance of this email is rather convincing, but […]

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NatWest Bank Alert of Unauthorized Access Is a Scam

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