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New Year’s Wishes – with side order of data harvesting

29

Dec

2011

It’s almost end 2011. What with Christmas recently passed, and New Year coming up, there’s naturally a lot of well wishes and holiday greetings being messaged around. Looks like someone’s decided to join in (a little late) – and also do a bit of data harvesting at the same time. Spyware:Android/AdBoo.A appears to be one […]

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SMS Fraud Is Not Unique to Android

15

Dec

2011

Google is yanking a number of apps from the Android Market after discovering that they are fraudulent. Although such apps are more likely to be found with Android than on rival platforms, the concept of fraud is an equal opportunity threat that extends far beyond Android mobile devices. First, a little background on the action […]

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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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