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Phishing with help from Google Docs

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May

2012

It’s child’s play to create a Google account, and use the Google Docs facility to host an online form. Maybe you’d want to use it to poll customers’ opinions, for instance.But if you’re a scammer – you can equally use Google Docs to phish for passwords and sensitive information.Here are a few email campaigns I […]

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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

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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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