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Zinio spam wastes everyone’s time

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May

2012

I’ve never heard of Zinio before, but apparently they produce electronic versions of magazines or something. I’ve certainly never opted in to receiving mail from them, but they do seem to be a legitimate company. Presumably they bought my email address from a third party in good faith. But the annoying this is that if […]

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SMSmishing (SMS Text Phishing) – how to spot and avoid scams

19

May

2012

If the smartphones of ESET bloggers are any indication, scams executed via SMS text, known as smishing or SMS phishing, are on the rise. I don't do a lot of texting, which makes a smish easy to spot on my phone, but I just read an amazing statistic from a Pew report: Users 18 to […]

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419 Scammers Take Advantage of the Facebook IPO

18

May

2012

Today sees the highly-anticipated IPO (Initial Public Offering) of the social-networking site Facebook. The IPO is expected to be several times oversubscribed as the demand for shares greatly exceeds the number of shares being issued. The high-profile nature of this IPO has not escaped the attention of the “419” or the “advance fee fraud” scammers. […]

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