Pages Tagged “fraud”
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- Phish Training
The year is 2006. I’m complaining on my blog about businesses training their customers to fall for phishing attacks. The year is 2011. I’m complaining on my blog about businesses training their customers to fall for phishing attacks. The year is 2022. I’m complaining on my blog about businesses training their customers to fall for […]
- Call Your Mark a Sucker
Scam explains that you haven’t received your money because you’re dealing with scammers, so please send your info…
- Stupid Scammer Tricks: Forgetting BCC
There’s something delicious about irony in spam. Yesterday, the spamtraps netted an advance fee fraud scam message that started out like this: Let me be honest with you. This information is just for you alone [emphasis added]. I would suggest that you try to fix it instead of making any trouble with it as my […]
- Now there’s an opening line!
I just spotted an advance fee fraud pitch in the spamtraps that started out with the greeting: Dear Trusting Friend. I suppose the scammer could have meant “trusted friend,” which is still odd for an introduction, but makes a little more sense. Of course, if you take “trusting” to the extreme—i.e. gullible—you’ve just described the […]
- Back to Basics: Phish by Phone
I just spotted a rather disturbing phishing message in (of all places) our abuse contact mailbox: Subject: Fraud Prevention Measures Dear customer! Due to high fraud activity we constantly increasing security level both for online banking and card transactions. In order to update our records you are required to call MBNA Card Service number at […]
- New trend in 419 scams: UK Artists
In the past two weeks, a new variant of the advance fee scam has dropped into our spam traps: supposed UK-based artists needing help selling their works overseas. The classic Nigerian scam involves someone claiming to be the relative of a deceased or deposed dictator, general, etc. is trying to smuggle money out of the […]