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That IT exec's name is Hicham Kabbaj, and on Friday, he pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for having set up a shell company and billing his employer for firewalls and services that "Interactive Systems" never actually installed. Once Company-1 paid up, Kabbaj would slide the cash on over to his own bank account - a scam that netted him a cool $6 million.
Have you ever received items by courier from people overseas? A free MacBook Pro for just $1! As we mentioned above, scams like this aren't miles away from real life, because emails from courier companies that document unexpected import and delivery charges are not unusual.
Gas stations are gearing up for a major change in credit-card fraud liability in October, when they will find themselves on the hook for card-skimming attacks at the pump. Dobieski however believes that with the shift in liability for attacks on card data looming, gas stations will indeed spend the next 10 months either finally upgrading their fuel pumps to chip-and-PIN, or, finding a workaround, such as implementing tokenization or point-to-point encryption.
More than 100 Chinese nationals in Nepal on tourist visas have been detained over a suspected cyber scam, police said Wednesday, in the country's largest ever crackdown involving foreigners. Eight...
14 Bank Websites Spoofed as Part of Two-Year Campaign, Check Point ReportsFor two years, an attack group using Ukraine-based infrastructure has been creating hundreds of lookalike domains to...
Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas has been sentenced to five years in jail for successfully defrauding two US companies out of $122 million.
This "I am well aware" email is just another sextortion scam where crooks try to blackmail you with a video they don't actually have.
Feds get extradition for 64 year-old fraud suspect who allegedly netted hundreds of thousands of dollars A 64 year-old man from Nigeria is set to be tried in the US on charges he was the brains...
Authorities say they have halted over 600 domestic money mules – exceeding the 400 money mules stopped last year.
The telltale signs are all there... but if you're in a hurry, this Netflix scam passes the "visual appeal" test.