Tag: E-MAIL SCAMS

Yes, we know we've covered the biggest e-mail scams before, but criminals never stop coming up with new ways to mess you up via the Internet, so we've decided it's time for an update -- this time focusing on specific e-mails to watch out for (that is, if you want to avoid everything from garden variety financial scams and computer viruses to flat-out ID theft). As always, remember there are ...

It's all fun and games when something like 'The Daily Show' or a site like The Onion picks on the world, creating fake news for the sake of humor. When spammers and phishers do it, though, it's not quite so funny, but that's exactly what these slimy e-mail predators have been up to lately by using sensationalist fake news headlines to try to get you to install their sleazy applications and ...

We're sure you've seen them in your e-mail inbox before, those messages from someone in Africa offering you millions of dollars in questionably legal funds in exchange for your assistance and -- naturally -- a few thousand dollars of your own funds. They call them 419 scams, for the article in the Nigerian criminal code that covers this particular brand of fraud. There is very little that one ...

E-mail scam artists and spammers have relied for years on using offers that dangle quick riches in return for access to personal information and bank accounts, but now these messages may be taking a turn toward the threatening. Currently making the rounds of inboxes everywhere is a new scam e-mail that insinuates bodily harm, or even death, if the recipient doesn't fork over money. This isn't the ...

We've said it before and we'll say it again: Never trust an e-mail, especially one carrying attachments, regardless of where it says it comes from. Still don't believe us? Check out this latest example, an e-mail purporting to be from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that supposedly is notice of a complaint posted against you, the recipient. The attached complaint is, of course, not really a ...

The 'Times Online' is reporting on what seems to be a rash of eBay-account hijackings with a boatload of fraud to match. There are apparently 20 million British eBay registrants, roughly a third of the population, and crooks are taking advantage of many of them by stealing their accounts and posting bogus items for sale. Once a sale is complete, the crooks take off with the proceeds. By stealing ...