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Fake Facebook Security Team phishes passwords from users

03

Jul

2011

A number of Facebook users have reported to us receiving mysterious messages, seemingly from Facebook’s security team, telling them that their accounts have been suspended. The spam messages, however, are not legitimate. In reality they have been sent out by fraudsters posing as Facebook’s real security team, with the intention of phishing credentials from unsuspecting […]

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FBI nabs international “scareware” ring

26

Jun

2011

Long a puzzling challenge, the FBI seems to be making strides in tackling international coordinated scams, in this case, scareware. Scareware, the practice of providing fake infection notifications to users’ computers, and then offering to sell solutions to problems that don’t exist, has been quite a boon as of late for fraudsters. FBI claims the […]

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Money making scam advertised through Facebook Adverts

21

Jun

2011

An expensive car, the see can be seen in the background . what a dream. And you can have these by working less than one hour per day and gaining between 150 – 500 euro per day. Who wouldn’t dream for such a thing? Obviously, as can be seen in the picture below, at least […]

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