scams

Facebook users are once more targeted with messages promoting a survey scam via a bogus offer of 5000 free Facebook credits. “Get your FREE 5000 FACEBOOK CREDITS! NO …

Lately, the Blackhole exploit kit has been getting a lot of attention, and no wonder – it is continually updated with exploits for various flaws in popular software, and …

PayPal users are targeted again as emails supposedly sent by the online payment company urge them to fill out a form with their personal and financial information in order to …

An email purportedly coming from the FBI Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division has been hitting inboxes and threatening recipients with jail time if they don’t …

As the holiday season approaches, a lot of people are bound to travel in order to visit their loved ones, so fake e-ticket confirmation spam campaigns are to be expected. …

Safeguarding one’s online identity is even easier this holiday season with the addition of new mobile and iPad applications that allow you to check your balances while …

A Starbucks-themed scam has been spotted targeting users of both Facebook and Twitter users and it does so not via messages sent from compromised accounts, but through spam …

Do you ever get tempted to click on one of the myriad of work-from-home, get-paid-huge-money adverts that are littering the Internet? Do you ever wonder if those claims are …

No matter how often fake “See who viewed your profile” apps are touted on Facebook, there are always users that fall for the trick and follow the steps required by …

Cyber scammers do not hesitate using every scrap of information there is on the Internet in order to gain users’ trust and misuse it for their malicious purposes. Also, …

Noteworthy threats in October 2011 included the return of a rogue web browser, a phony hacking tool for Gmail account password recovery and malware disguised as advertisements …

Bitdefender is adding a tool to its arsenal to prevent scams on Twitter. Safego has emerged successful from beta testing by Twitter users and will be incorporated into …