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It's easy to forget that the "Obviousness" of many scam emails comes from the fact that the crooks never intended those scams for us in the first place. We received a phish this morning that specifically targeted one of the main South African banks.

The latest findings show tech support scams, which often arrive as a pop-up alert convincingly disguised using the names and branding of major tech companies, have become the top phishing threat to consumers. Tech support scams are expected to proliferate in the upcoming holiday season, as well as shopping and charity-related phishing attacks.

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Tech support scams work because they try to trick people into believing there's a serious security crisis with their computers, says Norton Labs. The tech support ruse was the number one scam described by Norton Labs in its new October Consumer Cyber Safety Pulse Report.

Pyramid-scheme cryptocurrency scammers are exploiting Apple's Enterprise Developer Program to get bogus trading apps onto their marks' iPhones. They scammers are using a loophole that allows enterprise mobile device management programs to control corporate-owned iOS devices, according to Sophos' analysis, via Apple's Enterprise Developer program - specifically, the Apple Enterprise/Corporate Signature feature.

All those dubious excuses needed by traditional romance scammers to talk you into using wire transfer services to send money, or into buying them gift cards and sending through the redemption codes, are replaced by a sense of structure: there's a genuine app for this investment! The cryptorom scammers will even offer you an app if you have an iPhone, where Apple's "Walled garden" approach of requiring all consumer app downloads to come from the Apple App Store almost certainly persuades many victims that the cryptorom app must indeed have some sort of official authorisation or approval.

BEC scams use various tactics to compromise or impersonate business email accounts with the end goal of redirecting pending or future payments to bank accounts under a threat actor's control. One of the case examples in the indictment document seen by Bleeping Computer, mentions a single transaction of $356,954, sent by a victim in Boston to what they thought was the bank account of their business partner.

The Security Service of Ukraine has taken down a network of six call centers in Lviv, used by a ring of scammers to defraud cryptocurrency investors worldwide. Fraudsters behind these illegal call centers used VoIP phone numbers to hide their locations while scamming thousands of foreign investors.

Police have issued an urgent warning after an elderly man was scammed out of £30,000 by phone fraudsters pretending to be from BT. The incident happened last Thursday, prompting West Mercia Police to issue a bulletin warning people to be on their guard against suspicious phone calls. Once the app was downloaded, they then convinced the man to log in using his online banking details and thereafter to transfer a sum of money to another account for "Safekeeping."