A Melbourne financial adviser who got conned by a "Nigerian investment scam" has been sentenced to five years and three months jail after he took AU$1 million from his clients to pay for the fees required in the scam.
The Queensland police have charged two people for allegedly conducting a Nigerian scam operation as well as a further four people for using credit cards with skimmed data.
The South East Asian tsunami is starting to sweep a new batch of e-mails into Australia similar in tone to the notorious Nigerian scam e-mails which claimed some victims last year.
Commentary: How do you know when a technology has come of age? When people stop complaining about all those 'upper-class tech-heads' using it and start complaining about how the technology is being used to rip them off.
Nigerian scammers appear to be trying to cash in on the public sympathy for the victims of the South-East Asian tsunami.
It's official: Australia is an easy target for Russian crime gangs some are even turning Aussie lonely hearts into money mules. But are those "victims" actually guilty?
Does the improved credit card security offered by chip and PIN-embedded credit cards mean a future of greater personal liability?
Computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker says the rise of the professional hacker means the IT world must unlearn old lessons.
Is the war on cyber crime as simple as pointing the finger at China, Russia and the US? We investigate whether these parts of the world are being unfairly blamed.
Listen to audio recordings of conversations with real-life internet scammers in this guide to their history and recent activities.
March was another bumper month for spam. The latest figures reveal a continued increase in the amount of unsolicited e-mail traffic.
Kimmo Alkio takes stock of the current state of hackers, attackers, dot-bank domains and mobile phone viruses.
Detective Inspector Brian Hay, who heads up the Queensland Police Corporate Crime Investigation Group, reveals that hundreds and possibly thousands of Australians have fallen victim to the infamous Nigerian 419 scam.
Commentary: How do you know when a technology has come of age? When people stop complaining about all those 'upper-class tech-heads' using it and start complaining about how the technology is being used to rip them off.
Norton AntiSpam 2004 earns an Editors' Choice for its simplicity, efficiency, and ability to work inside Outlook Express.
I've come to the conclusion that all of the world's spam problems can be blamed on one tricolour feline. Well, that's not strictly true, but spam would be much easier to deal with if it was.
Spam drives users crazy, makes life difficult for mail administrators, and drives up costs. We evaluate five packages that aim to ease the burden on your mail servers.
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