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Smart Phones Are Phishers’ Phony Gift

10

Aug

2012

Lucky draw prizes are commonly used as bait in phishing schemes. The fake lottery prizes observed last Christmas and the charity lottery are examples. In July 2012, phishers offered a smart phone as a lucky draw prize. The phishing site spoofed a telecommunications company based in France and was hosted on servers based in Fulshear, […]

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Chinese Phish Tastes Bitter With Prizes

01

Dec

2011

Co-Author: Avdhoot Patil Symantec is familiar with baits commonly used in Chinese phishing sites. A grand prize, for instance, is often used as phishing bait. This November, 2011, phishers continue with the same strategy by including a brand new iPad 2 for a prize. The phishing sites were hosted on a free webhosting site. The […]

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Fake SMS Scams On Rise

09

Aug

2011

Fake SMS Scams are on rise in last few months. Fraudsters are mass spamming mobile users with fake messages claiming that they have won some Lottery or Lucky Draw from UK. Below are some of the scam messages: BT.UK: YOUR GSM NO.HAS WON 500,000GBP IN BTELECOM INT’L MOBILE DRAW TO CLAIM, SEND MOBILE NO,NAME AND […]

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