W32.Sinnaka.a is the hook which phishers are using to scare people into buying Spy Trooper, World AntiSpy, PS Guard and Raze Spyware, some of which are merely repackaged versions of other rogue spyware programs, such as SpyDemolisher, SpySheriff, and SpywareNo. They are doing it with fake Windows Security Center sites and bogus W32.Sinnaka.a virus alerts. Don’t let it fool you.
Category: Scams
There are more Hurricane Katrina scam sites than legitimate Hurricane Katrina relief sites, warned the FBI today. With nearly 4,000 Hurricane Katrina relief sites online,…
Hurricane Katrina email hoaxes are already starting to fly, to add insult to the horrible injury already suffered by the thousands of people in Katrina’s path. This first Hurricane Katrina email hoax claims that the Red Cross will donate money for each email sent.
Your online resume may be ripe for a new scam by identity thieves in which they simply lift all of your personal information from your resume and assume your identity.
Scammers have a new scam in which they call you up and tell you that you’ve missed jury duty, and boy are they ticked. You’d better verify who you are by giving them lots of personal information, because there’s a warrant out for your arrest! Don’t fall for it!
This is pretty interesting stuff. According to Iraq Museum International, it has detected a pattern of what it calls “eBay sniping”, in which bids are…
Millions of Windows Users at Risk by Massive ID and Bank Account Theft Piggybacking on CoolWebSearch
The implications are staggering. Internet security software company Sunbelt Software was investigating CoolWebSearch, a spyware package, when they noticed that stowing away in the CoolWebSearch…
If you get email claiming to be from the Regulatory Compliance Commission, the International Compliance Commission, the International Regulatory Commission, the International Exchange Regulatory Commission,…
Nigeria really seems to be doing all the right things to bring under some semblence of control the flood of financial scams which originate within…
Aunty has told you about the evils of click fraud. And how Google was sued over click fraud just last month. Now comes this company,…
Every once in a while you have to just laugh at the 419 scammers who abound on the Internet.
Scam baiting – the act of leading scammers on a wild goose chase – has been raised to a new art form with the advent…
In what is being hailed as one of the largest spam&scam busts of the decade, and the biggest 419 bust in history, the FBI and…
We’ve all seen variations on the theme. “I am Mariam Abacha, widow of the late Nigerian head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha. After the death…
In case you had any doubts about the global nature – the complex world-wide intricacies – of phishing networks, doubt no more. Case in point:…