Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

The story concluded that this dubious service had been scamming people and companies for more than a decade, and promised a Part II to explore who was behind Web Listings. A cached copy of Mark Scott’s blog Internet Madness from 2011 promotes Web Listings Inc. In December 2018, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how dozens of U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

Here’s a look at the most recent incarnation of this scam — DomainNetworks — and some clues about who may be behind it. The Better Business Bureau listing for DomainNetworks gives it an “F” rating, and includes more than 100 reviews by people angry at receiving one of these scams via snail mail.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 14, 2025

Following a WIRED inquiry, Telegram banned thousands of accounts used for crypto scam money laundering, including those of Haowang Guarantee, a black market that enabled over $27 billion in transactions.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 14, 2025

The feature uses on-device AI to flag potentially fraudulent messages before users interact with them, helping stop scams in real time. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Americans lost $470 million to text scams in 2024. Poor grammar (a common giveaway in phishing scams). And its not the only recent safety step.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2025

Over a year ago the FBI warned about what was then a new form of smishing (phishing via SMS) scam: text messages that demanded payment for toll fees. Then, in April another wave of toll fee scams began doing the rounds. How to avoid falling for toll fee scams Check the phone number that the text message comes from.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But it wasn’t until the past week that it become clear how many organizations — including towns, cities and political campaigns — actually have fallen for this brazen scam. As such, it’s likely this phony company has scammed a ridiculous number of consumers over the years, Guilmette observed.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

of all reports to the BBB Scam Tracker “were online purchase scams, up from 24.3% of those consumers lost money due to those scams, up from 71.2% A BBB survey conducted in August found that the majority of these scammed consumers made purchases for which they never received products. On top of that, 80.5%

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2025

The internet is filled with falsehoods. Were forever investigating new scams here at Malwarebytes, and so we get how hard it is to know whator whoto trust online. Theres the scam that takes advantage of grieving people and tricks them into paying for a funeral live stream. If we say something is fake, then its fake.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Here are 50 ways to avoid getting scammed on Black Friday — and beyond. Popular browsers, like Safari or Firefox, frequently issue updates to protect against scams. If you have to connect to the internet using a public network, do so with a virtual private network. Report scams. Choose credit over debit.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2024

In January, KrebsOnSecurity told the story of a Canadian man who was falsely charged with larceny and lost his job after becoming the victim of a complex e-commerce scam known as triangulation fraud. In this scam, you receive what you ordered, and the only party left to dispute the transaction is the owner of the stolen payment card.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 21, 2025

Details released by authorities so far indicate the mobile wallets being used by the scammers were created through online phishing scams, and that the accused were relying on a custom Android app to relay tap-to-pay transactions from mobile devices located in China. Authorities in at least two U.S. Image: WLVT-8.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 18, 2025

In recent months, a sophisticated scam has emerged, targeting drivers across the United States with fraudulent text messages about unpaid road tolls. Smishing scams like these follow a predictable yet highly effective, nefarious behavioral blueprintleveraging urgency, impersonation, and fear to manipulate victims into compliance.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

But while it’s an easy experiment to run, it misses the real risk of large language models (LLMs) writing scam emails. Today’s human-run scams aren’t limited by the number of people who respond to the initial email contact. So why were scammers still sending such obviously dubious emails?

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Meta provided insight this week into the company’s efforts in taking down more than 2 million accounts that were connected to pig butchering scams on their owned platforms, Facebook and Instagram. Pig butchering scams are big business, with hundreds of millions of dollars involved every year.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

A revival of the old Your package could not be delivered scam could spring up. Depending on how the scam reaches you and what it is after, there are several ways to stay safe. And please report fraud attempts with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , so others can be warned about common scams.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

February 11 marks Safer Internet Day , encouraging us to work together to make the internet a safer and better place. And while February 14 usually means love is in the air, Valentines Day is also a popular day with internet scammers. In 2024, romance scams alone led to losses tallied to $3.8

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Krebs on Security

MAY 21, 2021

One of the oldest scams around — the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data — is on the rise, the FBI warns. Here’s the story of a recent LinkedIn impersonation scam that led to more than 100 people getting duped, and one almost-victim who decided the job offer was too-good-to-be-true.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Romance scams continue to plague users, but their costs have risen to staggering heights, according to a Malwarebytes survey carried out last month via our weekly newsletter. However, with the return to in-person gatherings, our survey results show romance scams have hardly petered out. They conduct research, and follow a playbook.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2025

How the scam works: Free AI tools that cost you everything The trap begins on Facebook, where well-designed posts and pages promote fake AI services. One post alone racked up over 62,000 views, showing how wide the scam has spread. Fake AI tool names like Dream Machine AI and CapCut AI are commonly used to draw attention.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2025

Tasks scam are surging, with a year over year increase of 400%. Tina tells me all you need is internet access and you can start working for booking.com. balance in the USDT accounts belonging to the scammers These scams are likely designed to be confusing. And as with most scams, if it sound to good to be true, it probably is.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

And, let’s be honest , the deceptive writing phishing assaults and other cyber threats today employ are skilled enough to fool even the most trained, internet-savvy experts. That said, here are what I consider to be the Top 5 online threats seniors face today: •Computer tech support scams. Internet and email fraud.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Here’s a look at a fairly elaborate SMS-based phishing scam that spoofs FedEx in a bid to extract personal and financial information from unwary recipients. Most phishing scams invoke a temporal element that warns of negative consequences should you fail to respond or act quickly. com — stopped resolving. com, g001bfedeex[.]com,

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

. “The Saim Raza-run websites operated as marketplaces that advertised and facilitated the sale of tools such as phishing kits, scam pages and email extractors often used to build and maintain fraud operations,” the DOJ explained.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. A scan of social media networks showed this is not an uncommon scam. SecureWorks said these attacks had been going on since at least March 2023.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2023 report states that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 The 2023 Internet Crime Report published the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reveals that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 billion in 2023. billion in 2023. billion in 2022 to $4.57

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 22, 2025

This attack, first flagged by Nick Johnson , the lead developer of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), a blockchain equivalent of the popular internet naming convention known as the Domain Name System (DNS). Although it was signed by accounts.google.com , it was emailed by another address.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In August 2020, KrebsOnSecurity warned about a marked increase in large corporations being targeted in sophisticated voice phishing or “vishing” scams. and 11:00 p.m.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The investigator — we’ll call him “George” — said the 23-year-old Medayedupin lives with his extended family in an extremely impoverished home, and that the young man told investigators he’d just graduated from college but turned to cybercrime at first with ambitions of merely scamming the scammers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

The term “pig butchering” refers to a time-tested, heavily scripted, and human-intensive process of using fake profiles on dating apps and social media to lure people into investing in elaborate scams. In a more visceral sense, pig butchering means fattening up a prey before the slaughter.

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We Live Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Do you know what types of scams and other fakery you should look out for when using a platform that once billed itself as “the front page of the Internet”?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 27, 2025

But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life. Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

During the month of Ramadan, Resecurity observed a significant increase in fraudulent activities and scams. During the month of Ramadan, Resecurity observed a significant increase in fraudulent activities and scams, coinciding with a surge in retail and online transactions.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 16, 2023

Ben is disappointed: FBI reports huge rise in cryptocurrency investment scams. The post Scams Lost US $10 BILLION in 2022 — Crypto Fraud Grows Fast appeared first on Security Boulevard. Why am I not surprised?

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SecureWorld News

MAY 14, 2025

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2024 Internet Crime Report, marking a record-breaking year in cybercrime. This demographic was frequently targeted by tech support scams, romance scams, and crypto investment frauds. The report highlights a staggering $16.6 billion in losses.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 26, 2025

Internet security expert and educator Troy Hunt disclosed this week that he had been hit by one of the oldestand most provenscams in the online world: A phishing attack. As such, readers should be the lookout for any scams or phishing attempts in the coming weeks. But Hunts immediate disclosure of the attack should be commended.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 15, 2023

Now the important question: how many of you got scammed in some sort of way by cryptocurrency or another type of investment? The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2022 Internet Crime Report , which reveals the trends and impacts of cybercrime in the United States. Probably some of you.

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