Posts Tagged ‘user information’

Fake Tumblr Marketing Blog Leads to “Viral Gift Giveaway”

Jun

2012

Click to Enlarge Many of the cash generating advertising gimmicks making their way across Tumblr tend to skirt around the edges of legitimacy. This one is a full on, straight up fakeout and should be ignored as such. There are two types of spam promoting the website Tumblrmarketing(dot)com – the more regular kind of spam […]

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Fortune Teller App Ripping-off Personal Data also Appeared on Google Play

May

2012

We have recently encountered a fortune teller app that isn’t just trying to forecast the future; it is also stealing user information—and not to predict good fortune for the user. Last week, the Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) issued a security warning about the discovery of yet another Japanese Android app that extracts personally identifiable […]

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Sex Appeal Meter Scam and Execution Hoax Abound on Facebook

Mar

2012

There’s not a day when we don’t see a new scam or hoax-yes, even the old ones-being proliferated on Facebook. I’ve seen both today. Let’s take a quick look at each one, shall we? First off, the scam: click to enlarge The screenshot above is a post generated by the “Sexappeal Meter” app that have […]

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