Banking Internet Scams Web Fraud 
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 4, 2022
Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters. So they sent her some information about where to wire the money, and asked her to go to the bank.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 18, 2022
While the phishing message attached to the invoice is somewhat awkwardly worded, there are many convincing aspects of this hybrid scam. Also, the email headers in the phishing message (PDF) show that it passed all email validation checks as being sent by PayPal, and that it was sent through an Internet address assigned to PayPal.
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Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
” The operation was carried out in coordination with the FBI and authorities in Australia, which was particularly hard hit by phishing scams perpetrated by U-Admin customers. The security flaw was briefly alluded to in a 2018 writeup on U-Admin by the SANS Internet Storm Center. The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.
Krebs on Security
MAY 16, 2020
In those schemes, the scammers typically recruit people — often victims of online romance scams or those who also are out of work and looking for any source of income — to receive direct deposits from the fraudulent transactions, and then forward the bulk of the illicit funds to the perpetrators. Chamber of Commerce. ”
Krebs on Security
JULY 18, 2022
For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
In a post to its Twitter/X account last month, Signum Capital warned that a fake profile pretending to be their employee Mr. Lee was trying to scam people on Telegram. The file that Doug ran is a simple Apple Script (file extension “ scpt”) that downloads and executes a malicious trojan made to run on macOS systems.
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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