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As announced by our Security Predictions for 2012, the imminent start of the Olympic Games 2012 is a good worldwide event for phishing authors as well as malicious bots. They will most likely begin utilizing this vector to spread their attempts at masquerading as legitimate sites, organizations, or services to trick users into divulging information. Websense® Security LabsTM and […]

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It is seen that Advance-Fee Fraud i.e. confidence trick to earn money is used by scammers sending phone text (SMS) messages as a means of gaining new victims. These (SMS) messages claim that the recipient has won a substantial sum of money in an online lottery as shown below. The texts claim that the “lucky” […]

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This fake conference is actually likely to be a form of advanced fee fraud: From: Ms Regina Linus [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Date: 5 October 2011 19:53 Subject: Conference on racism/human trafficking and child abuse 2011,,,,,,,,,,     Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to participate in a Global Combined conference taking place from (22ND-25th November 2011) […]

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