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Article | 4/09/2010 Facebook glitch let spammer post to walls
A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages this week.
Article | 4/09/2010 Nigerian advance-fee scammer gets 12 years
A Nigerian man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sending out fraudulent e-mails offering victims big bucks in exchange for moving cash to t...
Article | 31/08/2010 Scam preys on required TweetDeck update
Scammers are trying to take advantage of the fact that many users will soon have to update their version of the TweetDeck Twitter software.
Article | 26/08/2010 Scammers hit Twitter, Facebook, send free iPad spam
Facebook and Twitter users are complaining about their accounts being compromised and then being used to spam friends with suspicious "free iPad offer...
Article | 24/08/2010 Apple can't stop ongoing iTunes charge scam
Users of Apple's iTunes services should keep a close eye on PayPal and credit card statements for fraudulent iTunes charges.
Article | 21/08/2010 ICANN asks Demand Media for answers after report
The group responsible for managing the Internet's domain name system is asking Demand Media's eNom division for answers following complaints from Inte...
Article | 14/07/2010 Bluetooth at heart of US petrol station credit-card scam
Thieves are stealing credit-card numbers through skimmers they secretly installed inside pumps at gas stations throughout the US Southeast, using Blue...
Article | 16/06/2010 3.7 billion phishing emails were sent in the last 12 months
Cybercriminals sent 3.7 billion phishing emails over the last year, in a bid to steal money from unsuspecting web users, says CPP.
Article | 19/05/2010 ACCC seeks to educate mobile phone users
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is using National Law Week to highlight the dangers of mobile phone scams.
Article | 11/05/2010 Windows 7 'compatibility checker' is a Trojan
Scammers are infecting computers with a Trojan horse program disguised as software that determines whether PCs are compatible with Windows 7.
Article | 12/04/2010 Ikea gift card scam takes in nearly 40,000 Facebook users
A scam Facebook page offering the site's users a US$1,000 Ikea gift card took in nearly 40,000 victims Friday.
Article | 8/04/2010 Facebook takes steps to deal with gift card scams
Like many other Facebook users Jeff Crites heard of the US$1,000 Best Buy gift-card offer last month from a friend, a Web savvy director of social med...
Article | 26/03/2010 Gonzalez sentenced for multimillion-dollar credit card scam
As his parents and sister silently wept, hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year sti...
Article | 22/03/2010 To fight scammers, Russia cracks down on .ru domain
In a bid to cut down on fraud and inappropriate content, the organization responsible for administering Russia's .ru top-level domain names is tighten...
Article | 4/03/2010 ACCC steps up anti-scam campaign
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has released two publications as part of the Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce’s 2010 Fr...