Consumer protection agencies around the world are gearing up in the next 48 hours for an international assault on scams in spam on the Internet.
Security companies are warning of an e-card company that downloads a spamming application onto visitors' PCs
Another fraudulent e-mail is doing the rounds, this one attempting to trick people into providing their Westpac bank account details.
US-based gaming Web site, The Game Monsters, has been implicated in the latest of round of phishing scams targeting Westpac customers, according to security experts.
Regrettably, 2003 proved to be a year in which online scamming elevated itself to new heights, with inexperienced, gullible or just plain unfortunate individuals facing a minefield of potentially expensive schemes.
It was inevitable that micro-blogging service Twitter would become infested with malware, according to a number of high-profile Australian users of the service.
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Individuals have been warned about the threat of identity theft for years. Now it's the turn of businesses.
The Australian Capital Territory police is warning Internet users to be wary of a new e-mail scam that deceptively alerts the recipient that their identity has been stolen.
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Online job search engine Seek is warning users not to fall for a scam that uses a bogus company name called "Plasma Project" and claims to be powered by Seek.
Phishing scams work on an embarrasingly low percentage of users -- but apparently that's enough to keep them profitable.
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.
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