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Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals

Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminalshardly newsThe BBC was reporting on such cases back in February: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/7265437.stm

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, scammer, chip

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Online brand-jacking increasing

With the evolving sophistication of online scammers' understanding of social engineering and trust building online, the techniques they use to build authenticity into their scam propositions have started directly influencing a targeted brand's reputation online in the most negative way possible - the loss of a customer's trust into the...

Tags: Brand, Scammer, MarkMonitor, Phishing, Branding, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Escrow fraud. Ruining Craigslist?

Escrow fraud. Ruining Craigslist?This dude is a racistYeah, this author makes a point by saying one needs to be careful when using Craig's list. But to imply Nigerians and Russians business people are crooks is racist. Just because some of them commit crimes does not mean ALL of them do....

Tags: Litigation, personals section, Craigslist, scammer, Ruining, Escrow Services, fraud

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

Spam-scam crackdown nets $2 billion in fake checks

Spam-scam crackdown nets $2 billion in fake checksWhat??? This Is Preposterous!!!I was expecting my $2 million dollar check from Mr. Niaru Ubotooni on Thursday, I swear if he is one of the individuals in this sting I will SUE!!!

Tags: crackdown

Discussion threads 2007-10-03

Scamming the scammers: Web vigilantes work hard to bait email thieves

Internet users are outscamming the scammers in a competition for who can be the wickedest Internet vigilante, reports the New York Times.Scam-baiters are taking glorious revenge on the mostly African scammers who take advantage of the unwary typically by offering millions of dollars in payoffs for helping them wire...

Tags: Web, International

Blog posts 2007-07-04

E-mail scammers face European crackdown

E-mail scammers face European crackdownOnce Again....Once again, there is no mention that the US will engage the email and other scammers who prey on the unwary by joining forces with others or by themselves. Our government is run by business so any business is good as long as the rich...

Tags: Government, Free trade, scammer, exchange rate, Third World, e-mail

Discussion threads 2007-01-03

Love is scary: What NOT to do in online dating

Halloween’s once-a-year scary, but merry, festivities will soon be upon us. Online dating, however, is a scary proposition all year long. Below are some tips on what NOT to do when looking for love online. WARNING: MARRIED PEOPLE AND CRIMINALS WILL BE PROSECUTED Online dating site True.com’s “value...

Tags: scammer

Blog posts 2006-10-13

FTC wants beefed-up powers against Net scammers

FTC wants beefed-up powers against Net scammerswhere's the beef>"The U.S. Senate in March unanimously approved a bill called the Undertaking Spam, Spyware and Fraud Enforcement Beyond Borders Act of 2005, nicknamed the U.S. Safe Web Act."

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Internet service providers (ISPs), Viruses and worms, SECURITY, spyware, scammer, FTC

Discussion threads 2006-07-24

Wired-up Africans reach 100 million-- ingenious uses abound

Wired-up Africans reach 100 million-- ingenious uses aboundWired-up AfricansAnd it gives them access to the 'Net so the unscrupulous can try to run scams/frauds on the American public as if we had just fallen off a truckload of turnips.Scams know no colorYeah, I get hit with Nigerians trying to scam...

Tags: Wired-up Africans, scammer

Discussion threads 2005-10-19

iTunes domain dispute heads to U.K. court

iTunes domain dispute heads to U.K. courtAlexa says...itunes.co.uk, no traffic data (i.e. below 5th million)Also Skipmusic.com no traffic dataSo its worthless to him in terms of stray traffic, and he will likely lose it.Scammer gets what he deservesNormally, I'd side with the little guy in a dispute like this. ...

Tags: Domain names, scammer, Alexa Internet Inc., domain name, complainant, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2005-03-29

Scammers access data on 35,000

Scammers access data on 35,000Too many IT service providers cannedthe real technical oriented employees to use cheaper labor. Well, they are getting what they paid for.After nigh on 13 years in the IT industry, I have found that only about 1 in 10 IT techs are actually qualified to...

Tags: Insurance, Benefits, Credit Reports, scammer, information technology

Discussion threads 2005-02-15

Vigilantes launch attack on scam sites

Vigilantes launch attack on scam sitesGood show.These scammers deserve the worst possible treatment. Bring it on - kudos to these 419 guys.GrandstandingDOS attacks will do little or nothing to deter the fraudsters. Efforts would be better spent identifying them and handing real names, addresses and evidence over to the...

Tags: Phishing, Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, VIGILANTe, scammer

Discussion threads 2005-02-10

Amazon Web services fan out

Amazon Web services fan outAmazon scamsI never shop at Amazon anymore. They have a lot of used items for sale by individuals and there are so many scams there it is sickening. Like people advertising $2700 laptops for $700. But they insist that you email them first before you buy...

Tags: Web services, Digital music, Amazon.com Inc., scammer, Web service

Discussion threads 2005-01-21

Additional Resources

HD Moore pwned with his own DNS exploit, vulnerable AT&T DNS servers to blame

A week after |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit, HD Moore's company BreakingPoint has suffered a traffic redirection to a rogue Google site, thanks to the already poisoned cache at AT&T servers to which his company was forwarding DNS traffic : "It happened on Tuesday...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., DNS, DNS Server, AT&T Corp., Server, Attack, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Spam coming from free email providers increasing

Spam coming from free email providers increasingSpamit is a problem, when recieve spam the TO: has additional accounts on my free email. there should be a way for the free email t block those sending to the same free email. it's CRAZYFree E-mail services should be held responsible...for keeping their...

Tags: Spam, free email company, spammer, e-mail company, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

PayPal no friend to online buyers

PayPal no friend to online buyersPayPal TipsI managed to have Paypal refund money I lost to a scammer ($24) who was listed as "PayPal Verified" on their website.It's interesting that PayPal arbitrarily decided late last year to change the default payment source account from credit card to bank account for...

Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, PayPal, online buyer

Discussion threads 2008-04-21

Cheap Mac clone draws angry response

Cheap Mac clone draws angry responseMore cheap excuses for questionable changesAccording to the article the people who own/run this company are supposed to be experience business people. Therefore they should know how to run a business.The new excuse about why they are now using PayPal (a system known for...

Tags: Operational accounting, Operating systems, Ego, Apple Inc., Psystar, Cheap Mac-clone, angry response

Discussion threads 2008-04-17

Escrow fraud ruining Craigslist?

There was a time when Bay Area residents could find anything they needed quickly and efficiently on Craigslist. It was great - cars, furniture, apartments, partners, all right there in a revolutionarily simple text format. Then Craigslist expanded to the rest of the US and even the world. Now...

Tags: Craigslist, Fraud, E-mail, Phishing, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-01-30

Australia pushes further Web censorship

Australia pushes further Web censorshipAnd coming soon...to America, courtesy of the Bush Administration, IF they have their way.RE: Australia pushes further Web censorshipI didn't know that Australia was the new China. Nothing on the internet should be blocked by a government. That's something that Hitler would do.RE: Australia...

Tags: INTERNET, Channel management, Homeland security, Web censorship, censorship, Web

Discussion threads 2007-09-21

The $150 laptop saga: Medison's CEO speaks

Medison CEO Valdi Ivancic gives a lengthy interview about the company and whether his $150 Fedora-powered laptop is a scam.The only problem: The interview isn't in English. Ivancic is interviewed in Jnytt, a Swedish newspaper. As background, I--and a bunch of other folks--ordered a Linux laptop from a company we...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Computer, CEO, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-07