Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2025

and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book writing, mobile app development and logo designs, a new investigation reveals. ” Launched in 2017, eWorldTrade[.]com asserted last year that certain scam firms in Karachi were impersonating the company.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2022

The scam artist John Bernard (left) in a recent Zoom call, and a photo of John Clifton Davies from 2015. a Norwegian company formed in 2017 that was seeking the equivalent of USD $100 million investment to bring its green fleet of 30 new offshore service vessels to fruition. . Tønnevold rejects this.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The general manager of Escrow.com said he suspected the call was a scam, but decided to play along for about an hour — all the while recording the call and coaxing information out of the scammer. One multifactor option — physical security keys — appears to be immune to these advanced scams.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

. “Possible options include, for example, bot admin panels, code injection panels, shell control panels, payment card sniffers, traffic direction services, exchange services, spamming software, doorway generators, and scam pages, etc.” RANSOMWARE DREAMS.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

‘Tis the season when even those who know a thing or two about Internet scams tend to let down their guard in the face of an eye-popping discount or the stress of last-minute holiday shopping. Even people who shop mainly at big-name online stores can get scammed if they’re not wary of too-good-to-be-true offers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

911’s EULA would later change its company name and address in 2017, to International Media Ltd. In a 2017 discussion on fl.l33t[.]su ” The service charged 20 percent of all “scam wires,” unauthorized wire transfers resulting from bank account takeovers or scams like CEO impersonation schemes.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity examined a huge network of phishing sites masquerading as the top carding stores which all traced back to a web development group in Pakistan that’s apparently been stealing from thieves for years. After all, nobody who gets phished or scammed is going to report the crime to the authorities.

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