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The good all scams: new countries, same tricks

20

Sep

2011

This blog post could have been titled also as “A trip from Nigeria to Libya”. Perhaps one of the best-known email scams is the Nigerian letter scam and its many variants. The http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/es/wp-admin/post-new.phpinitial email tries to convince recipients that there are several million dollars which cannot legally leave Nigeria unless transferred to a foreign account. […]

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Mrs. Gaddafi offers 40 million dollars for safekeeping

29

Aug

2011

Imagine my surprise this morning when I received an email from the second wife of Muammar Gaddafi, Safia Farkash al-Baraasi! I suppose I wasn’t really surprised, as every time there is a major news event, tragedy or television spectacle, spammers and fraudsters use the topic to social engineer their victims. The message itself was quite […]

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Hackers deface Libya’s top level domain registry with anti-Gadaffi message

22

Aug

2011

With heavy fighting reaching the compound of Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi’s compound, hackers have also taken virtual arms overnight and defaced the website of domain name registry nic.ly. Hackers calling themselves “Electr0n” have defaced the nic.ly website, the main registry which administers .ly domain names (the “.ly” stands for “Libya”) and replaced it with a […]

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