Scam Of The Week: Las Vegas Shooting Victims Charity

Oct 12, 2017 11:47:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

And again—it is enough to make you nauseous—low-life scum on the internet is using a tragedy and try to scam money out of people that want to help the victims. The Nevada Attorney ...

Scam Of The Week: Hurricane Harvey Charity Fraud

Aug 27, 2017 12:43:13 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hurricane Harvey hit hard and especially Houston, TX got badly flooded. The death toll is rising and you can also count on low-life cyber-scum exploiting this disaster.

Scam Of The Week: Phishing Moves To Smishing

Jul 8, 2017 10:14:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercriminals are increasingly trying to circumvent your spam filters and instead are targeting your users directly through their smartphone with smishing attacks, which are hard to ...

Scam Of The Week: Real Estate Wire Transfer Phishing Fraud

Jun 25, 2017 12:37:42 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to the NY Daily News, State Supreme Court Justice Lori Sattler was in the process of selling her apartment and buying another, when she received an email that seemed like it was ...

[BREAKING] Scam Of The Week: Your Politics Have Been Breached

Jun 19, 2017 8:25:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Gizmodo reported on a blog post by IT Security company UpGuard which revealed the largest US voter data leak to date. Political data gathered on more than 198 million US citizens was ...

Scam Of The Week: DMV Warns Drivers About Traffic Ticket Phishing

Jun 3, 2017 9:24:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Online reporter Doug Olenick at SC Media was the first to point to a press release from the NY State Department of Motor Vehicles warning about a phishing scam where New York drivers are ...

Scam Of The Week: It's Not A WhatsApp Voice Mail!

Apr 16, 2017 11:43:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You probably know that the Eastern European cyber mafia does their beta testing in the U.K., before they "export" their criminal campaigns to America. Here is a heads-up of a social ...

Scam Of The Week: Mystery Shopper Email

Mar 5, 2017 11:55:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Steven Weisman, Esq. warned against this scam and wrote March 5th: "Mystery shoppers are people hired to shop at a particular store and report on the shopping experience for purposes of ...

Scam Of The Week Blends CEO Fraud And W-2 Phishing

Feb 3, 2017 7:33:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have talked about CEO fraud here many times — e-mail attacks spoofing the boss and social engineering a high-risk employee into wiring funds to a bank account controlled by the bad ...

Scam Of The Week: IRS Issues Warning On New Tax Phishing Attack

Jan 14, 2017 11:31:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It's unbelievable, but the new tax season is around the corner and the bad guys are already at it. This is a two-phase phishing scam of the week you need to watch out for: PHASE 1: ...

Scam Of The Week: Locked PDF Phishing Attack

Jan 6, 2017 8:29:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wednesday Jan 4th, the SANS Internet Storm Center warned about an active phishing campaign that has malicious PDF attachments in a new scam to steal email credentials. The SANS bulletin ...

Scam Of The Week: Watch Out For Fake Apps

Nov 12, 2016 11:05:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The shoe retailer Foot Locker Inc. has three iPhone apps. But that did not stop an entity calling itself Footlocke Sports Co., Ltd. from offering 16 shoe and clothing apps in the App ...

Tech support scammers abuse bug in HTML5 to freeze computers

Nov 7, 2016 7:17:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Malwarebytes Researcher Jerome Segura reported on a new Tech Support scam that uses a known HTML5 bug to freeze the system and trick people to call a fake support number. Note, it does ...

Scam Of The Week: Tech Support Claims Your Hard Disk Will Be Deleted

Oct 29, 2016 11:52:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Symantec warns that tech support scams are getting more sophisticated by the month: "These scams remain one of the major and evolving forces in the computer security landscape. Between ...

[ALERT] Scam Of The Week: Brad Pitt Found Dead (Suicide)

Oct 13, 2016 7:04:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The divorce between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has been used by the bad guys for a "celebrity death hoax" which unfortunately is high-grade click bait. It's the most recent one to hit ...

Scam Of The Week: Insidious New IRS Social Engineering Attack

Oct 10, 2016 10:13:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a new insidious IRS scam that you need to warn your employees, friends and family about, and inform your HR department to start with. Seasoned internet criminals are sending ...

A new "long con" Scam Of The Week: Binary Options

Sep 20, 2016 7:54:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Most scams on the internet are "short con" scams, compare them to hit & run. However, "long con" scams have started to show up that can take a few months to finally steal the money. ...

Scam Of The Week: A New Type Of Tech Support Fraud

Sep 11, 2016 10:17:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We spotted an unusual phishing email which revealed a new scam your users will soon find in their inbox. Time to inoculate them before it becomes a problem! Many online service providers ...

Two New KnowBe4 Phishing Categories: Scam Of The Week and Reported Phishes of the Week

Aug 29, 2016 5:29:02 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4's Templates Mistress Katie has added two new categories to the System Templates: 1) SCAM OF THE WEEK - this will act as an optional weekly newsletter for you to send to your ...

Scam Of The Week: New Social Security Account Fraud

Aug 13, 2016 3:27:36 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Bad guys are abusing the Social Security Administration's (SSA) online service called My SocialSecurity Account in two ways: A phishing scam which encourages employees to create an ...

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