After spam runs related to UPS, FedEx, and Western Union, another form of invoice spam strikes again! We caught a new invoice spam that is purportedly from WorldPay, a division of the Royal Bank of Scotland that specializes in handling secure online payments from all over the world. The spammed email message informs users that…
Read MoreAfter the World Health Organization raised its global alert level on the spreading swine flu virus, Spammers quickly used this event for their spam campaigns. Early this morning, we have seen spam samples using Swine flu worldwide! or Swine flu outbreak! as their email subject. Spammers are using this social engineering technique because having the…
Read MoreThey say the Internet is making the world smaller. Whether that’s the case for the rest of us is debatable or not, but for one group of people it’s definitely true: spammers. Consider this new sample that our team came across recently: It appears to come from the Brazilian portal site Terra. That, in itself,…
Read MoreNikki Catsouras Let’s face it — cybercriminals never squander an opportunity to take advantage of potential victims’ curiosity, no matter how unethical, sick & twisted, or unscrupulous. Look at the tragic death of film star Heath Ledger. His untimely death was immediately used by cyber criminals to lure victims into their malware lair. But this…
Read MoreEvery year, April 15th marks the deadline for the submission of tax returns in the US, and with it comes the now-classic IRS (Internal Revenue Service) scam. Scammers are on the hunt for those who were not able to file their tax statements yet. Knowing how busy people are these days, scammers have taken advantage…
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