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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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Phone Text Message Lottery Scam!

23
Nov
2011

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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