Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ayesha fled Libya shortly after the Battle of Tripoli back in 2011. The scammers can’t even get this right; Aisha has had four children , but two of them were killed during the fighting in 2011. What’s the impact of the scam here? Many of these scams involve you sending scanned copies of passports or other forms of ID.

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Identity Theft Scams Banking Government 117

Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

February 2011: Ross Ulbricht Creates the Silk Road Marketplace “I created Silk Road because I thought the idea for the website itself had value, and that bringing Silk Road into being was the right thing to do. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.

Identity Theft 98

Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Government Engineering 98

Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. One was Alan Ralsky , an American spammer who was convicted in 2009 of paying Severa and other spammers to promote pump-and-dump stock scams.

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Antivirus Cybercrime Identity Theft Scams 357

Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

We’ve written at length about account compromise and identity theft , and how criminals will often hijack accounts belonging to dead people. Digging into identity theft. Depending on the region, identity theft of the dead can take many forms. ” Preventing identity theft.

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Identity Theft Accountability Social Engineering Scams 99