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Tax evasion? Don’t need that! Spam email promises tax refund! – Fake German Federal Central Tax Office (FCTO) feedback wants to phish sensitive user data

Jun

2012

Tax payers are currently waiting for their tax office’s feedback and the fake email sent to users’ inboxes suggests being a legitimate feedback with a promised tax refund of almost ?235. We’ve seen other mails with different refund values, but the scheme remains the same. The outward appearance of this email is rather convincing, but […]

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Gift Coupon spammers now also aim at Pinterest users – More and more web 2.0 platforms get spammed with fake offers

Mar

2012

There are various active spam campaigns spreading on the pinboards of Pinterest users, such as e.g. fake H&M coupons, an offer for a free coach handbag, fake Walmart, Ikea, Starbucks, Apple iPad, etc. Some Pinterest accounts have at least one whole album full of those dubious offers, promoting various brands: It’s the usual game: people […]

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Update: A 50? gift card for free?! “Hey, I’m no fool!”

Jan

2012

The new websites we found also seemingly offer 50? gift cards to the first 5,000 customers who follow the instructions given. This means the users have to share this particular site on Facebook, among other things. Sharing the website entails that many more people reach out to the website and the money is put into […]

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