In their efforts to convince innocent recipients to part with their hard earned cash, email scammers have created seemingly endless versions of lottery, financial aid, and surprise inheritance stories. And now these… Looking for some new scam tales we present:
The Harry Potter Foundation giving away GBP 250,000 (and they are based in “Potter house”)
The Facebook Africa Jackpot [...]
Spammers are always looking for ways to hide their true identity in order to bypass content filters, and to employ social engineering to bypass our own human filters that can often tell if something is spam just by looking at it. Here’s one message that arrived in one of our employee’s personal mailboxes. He saw [...]
Back in early 2008, TechCrunch reported about a Facebook phishing scheme where some users received wall posts proclaiming that funny or scandalous pictures had surfaced. When a user clicked on the link, he or she was redirected to what looked like the Facebook login page, but which actually was an imposter site that collected usernames [...]
