Tagged with " Phishing"
Littlewoods Phishing email
We received an unusual email today which is a twist on the usual “there’s a problem with your bank account” [...]
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“GooglePhishing” – Beware spoof “adwords” emails
This has just arrived in our mailbox at Scam Detectives HQ: Dear AdWords Advertiser, For quality services and running your [...]
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A “Giant leap backwards” in online security from MBNA
Credit card issuer MBNA has today sent out emails to it’s customers launching it’s improved Card Services website. We’re all [...]
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Scam Detectives – Facebook friend to the stars?
Wow! Hollywood star and Mrs Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie wants to be my friend on Facebook! For those who can’t [...]
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Beware “Tabnapping” – a new kind of Phishing scam
User Interface specialist and creative lead on Mozilla’s Firefox browser Aza Raskin has outlined a brand new variant on “phishing” [...]
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Very convincing phishing email – Alliance & Leicester
Phishing emails are usually easily spotted by virtue of poor spelling or grammar along with an obviously fake URL (web [...]
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Identity theft “rose by 20% in 2009″
According to UK credit reference agency Experian, cases of identity theft rocketed by 20% in 2009 with advisors helping 5,000 [...]
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Another Twitter Phishing email
We received an email at Scam-Detectives HQ this morning from “Twitter Support”, telling us that we have 3 unread messages [...]
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Is this you?? No – It’s a Twitter Phishing Scam!
Twitter users have been hit by yet another phishing scam. Messages such as “Lol. this is me??”, “lol, this is [...]
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SMS Phishing – Coming to the UK?
As you know, what happens in the US never takes long to hit the UK. Unfortunately, the same can be [...]
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