scams

Natural disasters are practically always exploited by scammers, and the earthquake that hit New Zealand and left thousands of its citizens homeless is not an exception, …

An Australian teenager has been sentenced two three years in prison after having plead guilty to over 100 charges of online fraud perpetrated on eBay. The fraudster effected …

Taking advantage of the fact that a lot of security companies are more relaxed over the weekend, cybercriminals use the opportunity to strike. This weekend, the popular auto …

Play.com, one of the biggest UK online retailers, has its share of scammers that try to lure users searching for a bargain and scam them out of their hard earned money. Play …

The latest survey scam to hit Facebook users starts with a message that’s supposedly from the Facebook team: Unfortunately for the most gullible users, it isn’t. …

It could happen to anyone. A click on a link posted by a compromised Facebook account or in an e-mail sent from an e-mail account of a friend who got phished, and you’re …

PayPal users should be on the lookout for phishing e-mails with “Please confirm your identity” in the subject line supposedly coming from the service: The download …

Accused of having broken into 303 eBay and PayPal accounts and of stealing over £180,000 in total from the legitimate owners of the accounts, a person from Nottingham has …

German-speaking Internet users are being targeted by a common scam with an unusual twist, warns Symantec. The well-known 419 (or advance-fee fraud) scam template has been …

A new scam is targeting Facebook users and luring them in with promises of complimentary tickers from Southwest Airlines. But what makes this scam different and quite likely …

The Cricket World Cup started on Saturday, and both the International Cricket Council and various security experts are issuing warnings to fans regarding likely cyber scams …

An improper input validation vulnerability discovered recently by M86’s researchers could be used to create phishing messages targeting RapidShare users. The discovery …