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Monday, December 8, 2008
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Telemarketer Sentenced for His Role in a Massive Fraud Scheme Targeting U.S. Residents
WASHINGTON - A room manager of a telemarketing call center operating out of Costa Rica was sentenced today to 11 years in prison for his participation in a massive, Costa Rica-based, telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted thousands of U.S.  story continues..comments?
November 25, 2008 6:05 PM PST by Steven Musil - CNET News Reports that a purported Gmail vulnerability was being used by unauthorized third parties to hijack domains turned out to be nothing more than a phishing scam, Google announced Tuesday. The alleged vulnerability reportedly allowed an attacker to set up filters on users' e-mail accounts without their knowledge, according to a proof of concept posted Sunday at the blog Geek Condition. In the post, Geek Condition's "Brandon" wrote that the vulnerability had caused some people to lose their domain names registered through GoDaddy.com. Complete articlecomments?
24 Nov 2008 14:31 In a report, Symantec has revealed prices for cyberattack tools and bank-account details, and identified counterfeit-software trends According to Symantec, a keystroke logger can be bought for $23 (£15), while $10 will pay for someone to host your phishing scam. Having a botnet at your fingertips will cost you $225, and a tool that exploits a vulnerability on a banking site costs, on average, $740, and runs as high as $3,000, according to Symantec's Report on the Internet Underground Economy, released on Monday. Full article Copyright © 1995-2008 CNET Networks, Inccomments?
By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer
Monday, November 24, 2008
(11-24) 04:16 PST San Jose, Calif. (AP) --
Internet criminals have been getting more "professional" for years, trying to run their businesses like Big Business to get better and more profitable at selling stolen data online. story continues..comments?
By Matthew Lee
updated 1:27 p.m. ET, Fri., Oct. story continues..comments?
SOUTH Korean have arrested three Nigerians for allegedly obtaining millions of dollars from Citibank with a forged document purportedly from Ethiopia's central bank. Police said the suspects were caught on Monday in Seoul following a tip-off from a local bank employee as they tried to withdraw money from a bank account. It had been frozen at Citibank's request. In August the trio allegedly sent a forged payment request from the Ethiopian central bank to Citibank in New York. Full article via Agence France-Pressecomments?
» www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-c···2.storyScammers are taking advantage of peoples fears with the economic downturn. Security experts are seeing an increase in phishing e-mails supposedly coming from failing or struggling banks. comments?
» www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-s···6.story E-mail inboxes may be clogged with a little less spam -- at least for a while. Authorities said Tuesday they have shut down one of the largest spam operations in the world, a vast network involving countries from New Zealand to China and the United States. The spammers sent out billions of e-mails in recent years encouraging people to click through to Web sites that allegedly used false claims to peddle prescription drugs, as well as "male enhancement" and weight-loss pills. The Federal Trade Commission received more than 3 million complaints about the spam and related Web sites, illustrating the scale of the operation, officials said. The sites, including one called "Canadian Healthcare," were difficult to distinguish from legitimate online pharmacies -- making the pitches more persuasive, said Steve Baker, the FTC's Midwest Region director. comments?
By Paul Farrow Telegraph.co.uk Frank Abagnale, is the man who as a teenager fooled people into thinking he was a Pan Am pilot (he never actually flew a plane) cashed bogus cheques to the tune of $2.5m in 26 countries and whose memoirs were the inspiration for the hit movie set in the late 1960s Catch Me If You Can which starred Leonardo di Caprio. Full article herecomments?
As we enter August, Symantec takes note in the State of Spam Report that spammers are continuing to attempt to entice users to open their messages by sensationalizing false news events. Popular targets of this headline or tabloid spam include current public events and figures, such as Obama and McCain. more at securityfocus.comcomments?
Spammers Continuing to Use Sensationalized Headlines to Lure Unsuspecting Computer Users
Last update: 11:51 a.m. EDT July 28, 2008
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA, Jul 28, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- A new malware distribution scheme performed via spam messages aimed at tricking computer users to download and install malicious applications on their computers has been identified by BitDefender(R), an award-winning provider of antivirus software and data security solutions, today. story continues..1 comment
Domain name registration through "domains by proxy" may have been leaked, or there may be a security issue allowing spammers to target the owners of privately registered domains, in an effort to either hack or scam the owner of the registered domain, by sending spam emails with links to hosted data, which would cause the owner of that privage domain to request data from the spammers server... or the Domain names have been leaked(cough#sold#cough) to spammers via the recent 3rd party private registration info handoff via domains by proxy..... story continues..1 comment
Scam artists use technology to their advantage » www.kccommunitynews.com/articles···593.txt quote:
Every day people fall victim to various types of scams that usually go unreported and can result in losses of thousands of dollars.
A Paola woman was a target of a counterfeit check scam about six months ago. 1 comment
The Federal Trade Commission plans to study the experiences of identity theft victims by conducting a survey of consumers who contacted the FTC after they were victimized. The proposed survey will examine the remedies available to victims under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act). Among other things, the FACT Act gave consumers the right to place fraud alerts on their credit files if they are, or suspect they may become, victims of identity theft; block information on their credit reports that resulted from identity theft; and obtain copies of their credit reports free of charge. The survey will seek information from identity theft victims who contacted the FTC between January 1 and May 30, 2008, and will inquire about their experiences when they contacted one or more credit reporting agencies and when they sought to use their FACT Act rights. Source: Federal Trade Commissioncomments?
UPDATE: Third Naperville Resident Falls Victim to Fishing Scam » www.wbbm780.com/UPDATE--Third-Na···2540319 quote:
NAPERVILLE -- A third Naperville resident has fallen prey to a telephone scam targeting the elderly, a scam in which two of the victims lost more than $9,000, police said.
In a press release, police said the scam involves a man calling the victim, claiming to be the victim's grandson. comments?
HOUSE STEALING The Latest Scam on the Block » www.fbi.gov/page2/march08/houses···08.html quote:
What do you get when you combine two popular rackets these days—identity theft and mortgage fraud? A totally new kind of crime: house stealing.
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By MARLA JO FISHER The Orange County Register LINK: Some students' tax returns were stolen after security breach at UnitedHealthcareIRVINE – A computer security breach at a health insurance company was responsible for an identity theft at UC Irvine that affected 1,132 students, and led to fake tax returns filed for at least 155 of them, officials said Thursday. A criminal investigation is under way in the case, which came from a leak at Minnesota-based UnitedHealthcare, the insurance provider for UCI graduate students. comments?
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Friday, May 23, 2008
Women stole identities to pay for breast enlargement, police say
Two suspects, believed to be 45 and 50 years old, used fake IDs and credit accounts for cosmetic surgery procedures at Irvine medical center.
By SEAN EMERY
STAFF WRITER
IRVINE – Two women are believed to have used fake IDs and credit accounts to pay for liposuction, tummy tucks and breast augmentation at an Irvine medical facility, according to police reports. 1 comment
By Stefanie Hoffman, ChannelWeb - May. 14, 2008
Social networking giant MySpace was awarded an unprecedented $230-million judgment that concluded a lawsuit against "Spam King," Sanford Wallace and his partner Walter Rines in a landmark decision announced Monday afternoon in a Los Angeles federal court. story continues..comments?
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