It’s not been a good week for spam, in my mailbox at any rate. Mostly, just half-hearted lottery scams like this: Congratulations! Your Email was confirmed as winner of the Raffle draw Held in February, 2013 in Europe. FOR CLAIMS Send Name…. Phone.. ( euroraffle1@bresnan.net ) Await response for claims. Regards Does anyone ever fall … More Scam conference invites: a tale of several cities
Apart from an overwhelming quantity of online banking scams hitting Irish mailboxes, ESET Ireland has in the recent months observed that the cybercriminals are also exploiting the misfortune of those worst hit by the economic situation, with the same immoral cynicism they apply when promoting fake charities or fraudulent donations during natural disasters. Official-looking emails, … More Irish unemployed baited by online scammers
In a world where nothing seems to be constant but change, it’s good to know that there are, in fact, some things that change fairly slowly. Unfortunately, readiness to believe and spread hoaxes is one of them. Even worse, they’re often the same hoaxes that were being spread years and even decades ago. Here’s a … More It’s a Wonderful Hoax
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
Cybercriminals are cashing in on the financial crisis, spamming Irish mailboxes with fake offers of affordable loans. In difficult times people resort to desperate measures to try to keep their finances afloat. When it becomes impossible to get a regular loan, some people turn to loan sharks and their extortionist interest rates, while others look … More Fake loan offers out to scam the desperate
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