This one is potentially a better attempt at a phishing scam than most. Supposedly from TrustWave, it tells of a failed vulnerability scan on my network and to view the results online. Visiting this site potentially loads Malware, or tries phishing techniques to get access to your systems. One interesting aspect of this is it […]
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The Better Business Bureau have been targeted as the latest providers of a \”trusted source\” for email phishing attempts. Not that the BBB are actually doing something wrong, but have been targeted by the spammers as a face for their campaign due to their trustworthiness, and in this case, the concern that happens when you
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These phishing attempts are usually found by my virus scanner, but this one got through. Anz Bank We\’d like to inform you that your Secure Messages Center has 1 new message. Please login to your Online Banking and visit the Secure Message Center section in order to read the message. Log On to Online Banking.
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I have had a number of enquiries from clients, checking to see if these emails are legitimate or not. However, I have just received one directly and have noticed that although the scam is the same, the wording and formatting are a bit better, more convincing. Here is the transcript: Dear Manager, (If you are
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Beware of a directory listing scam that is being emailed out to people offering a business listing with Free Updates! What is hidden though is that by signing and sending back the form, you lock yourself in for a three year listing at EU995 per year. But they do let you update your details for
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The tricks these guys try… So I get an email, apparently a scan of an image from a Xerox copier sent to my inbox. I am going to open the zip file that is attached? Um No! This is what I see wrong with this one… Images don\’t need to be zipped, it doesn\’t compress
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Phishing is all about getting people hooked, line a sinker, this time Amazon is the recipient of the Phishers focus. It seems to be the usual DHL / UPS style scam, where a zip archive is attached to an email that carries the nasty payload. Asking you to print the attached postal label to get
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Well they keep rolling off the spam/scam production line. This one pretends to be an email from mail support of a specific domain. As with all of these mass email scams, they don\’t realise that the person they sent the email to manages all of the mail for that domain (Including the \”support\” that is
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Many times there are things that show the US Centricness (Is that a word?) of the internet: .com readily meaning US site US date formats in online forms USD as the default currency Well another example is the idea that every country must use UPS and DHL for their parcels. Why else would all of
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Local NZ ISP Igrin is the latest to be targetted for a phishing scam. This one is quite crude as even the links look nothing like Igrin links This message is from the webmail IT service, you are to provide to us the below information to re-validate your account due to spam. What was the
