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...mt/mt-tb.cgi/65093 Comments (1) cyberdoyle: I hope somebody asks Stephen Timms if he is aware of the scam BT are trying to pull. Now funding from the levy looks like is going to be available they want it to lay new copper to... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/when-it-meets-politics/2009/09/stephen-timms-welcome-for-euri.html
...of caller-id spoofing and the transferring of telephone lines. Thirdly, the fact that the banks involved fell for the scam - in spite of increasingly sophisticated analytical controls designed to detect the likelihood of fraud being committed... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/stuart_king/2008/12/new-and-old-frauds.html
...found that 40 percent of people use the same password for all their online accounts, raising concerns that victims of the scam may be vulnerable to futher attacks. Security experts are urging people to change their webmail and other passwords... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/10/07/238037/scale-of-webmail-phishing-scam-widens.htm
...is reportedly the latest victim in the scam, Westpac yesterday released an advisory...Paul Lilley, the advisory claimed the scam e-mails were being sent out randomly...Banking Group and Westpac were hit by the scam the bank announced an investigation... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2003/08/28/196772/australian-bank-customers-warned-of-e-mail-scam.htm
...estimated to gross hundreds of millions of dollars annually -- the scam letter is sent as a LinkedIn or other social networking...with the social networking site, to make the claims in the scam letter appear legitimate. Since the scams are only delivered... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/stuart_king/2008/04/nigerian-419-scam-on-linkedin.html
...five websites trading under the names Fleetwood Holiday Ltd or Sun Orient Ltd, based in Islington, north London. The scam – in which holidaymakers are sold non-existent holidays and robbed of their money – is understood to have hit nearly... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/08/22/217879/two-charged-over-online-holiday-fraud.htm
...threatened with legal action by employees who received Nigerian 419 messages at their work email addresses and fell for the scam. They now blame the company for not taking adequate measures to protect them (from their own gullability). An interesting... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/stuart_king/2008/04/if-you-believe-everything-you.html
...the fake terminal and the details of the card are snatched and wirelessly sent to an accomplice outside the shop. The scam requires an insider at the retail outlet as well as the accomplice who collects the data using a wireless connection... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/02/06/221648/tv-to-demonstrate-cloned-chip-and-pin-cards.htm
...Some people are vulnerable to scams because of their circumstances, not because they are overly gullable or stupid. If the scam is plausible enough and catches us at the right time in the right circumstances then any of us could get taken in. So... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/stuart_king/2008/05/web-scam-suicide.html
...the incident, adding that customers who had fallen for the scam were having their accounts checked and passwords reset...whereas ANZ's real site was running IIS 4. Hosting for the scam site's server has been tracked back to Florida and Massachusetts... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2003/04/11/193766/australian-bank-latest-victim-of-spoof-and-spam.htm

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...Tips/Support Miniseries Searching for Evil: Spot the scam Security researcher Ross Anderson gives a talk on...off slow, but picks up when he gets to the "Can you spot the scam?" game that he plays with each Web site. (If you... http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/08/05/9857537.aspx

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