The Government owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL – the leading Indian telecommunication company) website has suffered yet another hacker attack. This time it was in the early hours of Sunday (December 4, 2011). After the hacking a message appeared on the site – “Your site Security is Shit and if you Dont Update We […]
There is a new scam spreading around in Facebook which claims to show a video of an American Rapper, DeAndre Cortez, better known by his stage name ‘Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em’, or simply ‘Soulja Boy’. Cortez is an American rapper, record producer, actor, entrepreneur and Internet personality. The scam spreads by tempting a viewer to […]
Users are receiving emails which claim to be from the official iTunes store. These are specially crafted emails which lure the users by assuring them that they are amongst a few lucky ones to be selected for gift certificates amounting to $50. Furthermore, the emails ask the users to open the attached zip file in […]
Another United Parcel Service (UPS) spam has been discovered and it carries the message “A new invoice is now available in the UPS Billing Centre. Please refer to attached file for more details”. The subject is: “Your UPS Invoice is Ready”. The email comes with an attachment called “UPS-Billing-Invoice-Notification-809288436661915.zip”. The email claims to be from […]
It is seen that Advance-Fee Fraud i.e. a confidence trick to earn money is being used by scammers sending phone text (SMS) messages as a means of tricking new victims. These text messages claim that the recipient has won a substantial sum of money in an online lottery as shown below. The texts claim that […]
There is a new scam spreading around in Facebook. The scam spreads by tempting a user to click a link that shows the message – “Most embarrassing moment ever in Beauty Contest”. The scam also has following description – “Poor girl makes the biggest mistake of her life on a live Beauty contest”. With such […]
The recent wave of porn spam attacks that flooded Facebook accounts with posts carrying images of sex and violence has been brought under control. Most of the spam has stopped and the responsible accounts have been quarantined. Thousands of Facebook users had been afflicted and unknowingly posted pornographic spam which spread like a viral campaign […]
A blast of new spam emails targeting computer users and attempting to infect them with a variant of a banking trojan has been discovered. The emails aim to achieve this by posing as ACH (Automated Clearing House) transfer failure notifications. The spam emails carry one of the following subject lines: -ACH payment canceled -ACH payment […]
Day by day online job frauds are getting advanced and more authentic. With so many people currently looking for jobs, there are more scammers out there than ever who are trying to take advantage of this. The scam artists are well aware about the tendency and eagerness of freshly graduated students to grab a good […]
A new Facebook Scam – “Play Mario Kart Game”, tries to deceive a viewer that anyone can play the Mario Kart game on Facebook. The scam says – “Play Mario Kart on Facebook with your Friends! Join the multiplayer mayhem NOW! Click here to play”. When a viewer clicks the Play Now tab, it redirects […]