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Scammers are draining payment cards linked with Starbucks customer accounts (Help Net Security)
2015-05-13 12:25

Scammers are actively targeting Starbucks customers and syphoning money from the credit or debit card they have tied to their Starbucks accounts. In order to perform this attack, the only thing the...

Police dismantle gang of online fraudsters and romance scammers (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 13:52

The Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza), supported by Europol, arrested 10 members of a transnational criminal group. The criminals, mainly Nigerian citizens, were involved in laundering the...

Scammers deliver malware via fake Steam game pages (Help Net Security)
2015-04-09 12:53

Aside from being regularly targeted with phishing scams, fake giveaways leading to online surveys, and having malware pushed on them via Steam chat, gamers using the popular gaming platform are now al...

Scammers use Whatsapp calling feature as a lure (Help Net Security)
2015-03-23 09:53

Survey scammers and adware peddlers continue to advantage of the interest Whatsapp users have in the quietly rolled out Free Voice Calling feature. According to Malwarebytes' Jovi Umawing, both Eng...

Busted scammer resorts to death threats (Naked Security)
2015-03-10 11:11

After the Canadian man told the crook he was a thief and a scammer, the tech support scammer said he had the man's address and would send assassins.

Scammers pretend to be friendly office printers
2011-09-28 05:27

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220315/Scammers_pretend_to_be_friendly_office_printers By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service September 27, 2011

NASA, Stanford sites hit by search engine scammers
2011-05-10 07:34

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216555/NASA_Stanford_sites_hit_by_search_engine_scammers By Robert McMillan IDG News Service May 9, 2011 Scammers looking to flog cheap software have hacked...

Payroll Giant Gives Scammer Personal Data of Hundreds of Thousands of Investors
2006-07-07 09:29

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2160425 By DAN ARNALL ABC News July 6, 2006 The latest corporate data breach is from a company you may never have heard of, even though one in six...