Watch out for this nasty new trend in robocall scams
Scum. Scummy. Scummy-scum. That’s what I kept thinking as I started to put together this article. There are some people out there who are...
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Phishing and cryptocurrency scams squashed as one million emails are reported to new anti-scam hotline
A service that allows people to flag phishing and other suspicious emails has been sent over a million reports of scam messages so far....
COVID-19 Fuels Phishing and Scams While BEC Attacks Evolve and Increase
Between the second and third weeks of March 2020, email scams and phishing attacks spiked by an unprecedented 436%. Such was the effect of...
Australians reported 25,000 phishing scams last year
Top scams by loss, as reported to Scamwatch Australians reported 167,797 scams to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)-controlled Scamwatch in 2019. A...
Watch out for these robocall scams during lockdown
Unwanted phone calls happen to almost everyone who has a phone. These calls often happen several times per day and, if you are not...
FinCEN Chief Blanco warns of Wide Scale Virtual Currency Scams – E Hacking News
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is keeping a close watch on financial scams involving virtual currency payments as the COVID-19 pandemic opens new areas...
Google Is All Set To Fight The Coronavirus Themed Phishing Attacks and Scams – E Hacking News
These days of lock-down have left cyber-criminals feeling pretty antsy about “working from home”. Not that it has mattered because apparently, that is why...
Coronavirus scams: This is how much people have lost to online fraudsters so far
Over £2 million has been lost to coronavirus themed scams, phishing emails and other fraud in the UK alone as cyber criminals look to...
BEC Scams Cost American Companies Billions! – E Hacking News
Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams have surfaced among several US companies and have caused them damage costing along the lines of Billions, mentions a...
FBI Expects Increase in COVID-19-Themed BEC Scams
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is expecting an increase in the frequency of scams related to the current COVID-19 pandemic, including those involving business...