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• Avoiding Twitter Phishing Scams: Dont Click On That Link

  
  flyte blog: small business web marketing blog — Authority: 121
  Theres a popular new phishing technique on Twitter that a lot of people are falling for. Someone you follow on Twitter--maybe even someone you trust--sends you a DM (direct message) that encourages you to click on a link. Some of the come-ons Ive seen include: Is this you? [ bogus link ] I just found out my iq ...
  5 days ago

• Twitter Phishing Scam: Changing Your Password Might Not Be Enough

  
  JD Scoop — Authority: 465
  Alas, the Twitter phishing attacks continue. Today, many of my friends and followers have discovered that their IQs are higher than first thought ("Click here to take the quiz") - which is hardly a surprise, given that yesterday they all figured out how to make $500 a day online. (Cant help but see a touch of irony ...
  5 days ago

• WARNING: Twitter Money Scams Spreading Through DMs

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 886
  You have to credit the phishers and scammers: they are persistent in their attempts to hijack your Twitter account. They scammed many uses back in September and updated their tactics in October . Now they’re at it again with similar tactics but a different approach. We’ve received multiple reports (and ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft Department Of Promotion Bullshit Email

  
  What A Load Of Bullshit — Authority: 106
  I’m sure that many of you would have received this email, just as sure that most of you would have recognized it for what it truly is, a pile of BS. Honestly, what professional would use a Yahoo account as a return email address? Anyway, if you are even considering falling for this crap, don’t! Take my advice and ...
  1 week ago

• Facebook Scam E-mail Warning!

  
  Stamping Is My Business! — Authority: 128
  Just a quick note this morning to warn you... I f you receive an e-mail from "Facebook" or "The Facebook Team" asking you to open an attached .zip file to change your password, do NOT open that file! Its a scam... and the file is either a virus or a phishing program.
  1 week ago

• WARNING: New Twitter Phishing Scam Spreading via Direct Message

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 886
  There is a new Twitter phishing scam making the rounds, and this one is spreading quickly via direct message. The infected message, which seems to be an iteration of a previous phishing scam , simply reads: “Hi, this you on here?” Clicking on the link will take you to a phishing site where scammers can take your ...
  1 week ago

• Barrister Andrew Fraser ESQ Is A Wanker

  
  What A Load Of Bullshit — Authority: 106
  THIS IS MY THIRD AND FINAL MAIL TO YOU!!! On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr.Juriaan Kugger. I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter were returned undelivered. I wish to notify you that late Engr. Juriaan Kugger made you a beneficiary to his WILL. He left the sum of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sneaky phishers

  
  Grains of Sand — Authority: 124
  The deadline for manually filing our tax returns passed on 18 September this year, and the deadline for electronically filing (e-filing) is coming up fast on 20 November.A day or two ago, I received the following email, ostensibly from the South African Revenue Services (at least, that’s what it said in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• BBB warns of new phishing scheme

  
  WorkAtHomeTruth.com Blog — Authority: 468
  A 10/16/2009 BBB alert warned of a new phishing e-mail posing as BBB complaint confirmation: " Beware of Bogus Emails coming from complaintsmajdivision@complaints.bbb.org Better Business Bureau is alerting consumers and businesses about a new phishing attack that resembles an e-mail confirmation claiming the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The anatomy of an online phishing scam

  
  Calvin's Hub — Authority: 425
  Phishing scams are crimes using spam, malicous websites, email messages or instant messages to trick people into divulging private information. It is essentially an online con game where phishers are typically identity thieves. So if you’re wondering how somebody was able access to your e-mail or other online ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Email Phishing Scam Targets Small Business Users

  
  Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock — Authority: 121
  In the past, phishing scams were almost always something people using Hotmail, Gmail, or Yahoo mail had to be concerned about. But now a new twist to an old email scam has small business users calling their IT people almost daily.Emails like this one are being sent out on a mass basis to people who are not using any ...
  3 weeks ago

• Phishing Lessons, Hotmail Style

  
  Tech - for Everyone — Authority: 127
  If you watch the news, read the papers, and/or peruse tech Web sites, you will be aware of a recent “news item” that thousands of people’s Hotmail login credentials had been stolen in a “phishing scam” and posted on the Internet. Just shy of 10,000 of them…You may also be aware that Hotmail was not [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Using Twitter Can Get You A Virus: Phishing Scams

  
  ForWomenOnline — Authority: 486
  Twitter users have reported receiving an onslaught of suspicious messages that appear to be part of a phishing scam. Many people on Twitter say they’ve been sent Direct Messages (DMs) or Tweets that include a generic message encouraging the recipient to click on a link, along with a URL. Some of the messages that ...
  3 weeks ago

• WARNING: Twitter Phishing Scam Spreading via Tweets and DMs

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 461
  It looks like a Twitter phishing scam that we reported on last month has re-emerged today. read more
  3 weeks ago

• FBI Arrests 53 Over Bank Phishing Scam

  
  Kikabink News - Internet Marketing News — Authority: 479
  The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation is arresting 53 people over a large-scale phishing scam, where Internet users were tricked into revealing their bank account information.Evidently... (Click on the title for the full story...)
  3 weeks ago

• Lazy Sunday Links

  
  dv-depot.com — Authority:
  Yes, the FBI director has his own commander. Not the president of the US or some senate committee, but his wife who banned him from doing online banking after he nearly fell for a phishing scam. Iceland is all about being (literally) cool, which is why they want to become the server capital of the world . They ...
  4 weeks ago

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