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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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Gaddafi’s death in spam

07

Nov

2011

“Nigerian” spammers are extremely quick to react to the world’s hottest news stories. News of the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had barely even broken before a string of emails from the “relatives of the deceased” began to appear. Gaddafi’s inconsolable relatives would be amazed if they knew how many emails had been […]

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Increased usage of unregistered spam domains

27

Oct

2011

Consider the spam email below: It promotes an online casino site. URL filtering systems that block access to such sites usually run a few checks before adding the URL to the “spam” category. One of these checks is that the URL is registered. Once this is known the date of registration can be checked – […]

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