At Reflex – ESET Ireland we received quite a few relatively official-looking scam emails recently referring to “domain registration”. Here’s a typical one: All Irish companies receiving such mail should know this is a scam. The idea is to get you to register the name that the ‘other company wants to register’, obviously at a … More Recycled old scams baiting Irish companies
In the recent weeks IT security experts at ESET Ireland have seen a massive run of targeted scam emails spamming Irish mailboxes, all with various attempts to scam Permanent TSB customers. The emails come with subject lines like “Your access to Open24 online banking has been locked”, “Your account has been temporarily suspended”, “We found … More Permanent TSB’s good name under attack by scammers
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about hoaxes (here or anywhere else), but they haven’t gone away, even if we don’t see many of the stories about catastrophic, undetectable viruses any more. Here is an old favourite that has hit my radar recently both by email and via Facebook. (Many antique hoaxes have taken … More Premium Rate Scams and Hoaxes
Every major disaster in the recent years like the Indian ocean tsunamis, hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake and the the Japanese earthquake and nuclear disaster has attracted the attention of the lowest form of cybercriminals, the so called “disaster scammers” – people who try to make a profit on either those already victims of the … More Warnings against »disaster scammers« in the wake of hurricane Sandy
After the recent spams that were using AIB’s name to scam victims into disclosing their login information and security codes, we’re now receiving similar scams, abusing the names of Permanent TSB and Ulster bank. Even though one could think Ireland would not be a prime target on the global cybercrime map, the many scams targetting … More More Irish banks’ names abused in email scams
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