The Freerice website lets visitors take part in a general knowledge quiz and donate rice for every question they answer correctly,…
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Britain’s Got Talent – and Twitter Spam
Yesterday, an awful lot of Twitter users following some of the winners and finalists from Britain’s Got Talent may have run into…
Ancient Chain Letter Migrates From Mail to Social Networking
You’re always guaranteed to see a chain letter of one form or another bouncing around on a social network or in…
Poste Italiane Phishing Mails In Circulation
Currently landing in mailboxes: a Poste italiane phish asking for username and password information. The potentially somewhat off-kilter Google Translation reads as…
Fake Amazon Local Emails Deliver Malware
Beware of an email in circulation claiming to be from Amazon Local, which mentions invoices for an order you never actually made….
Fake Cloud Storage Mails Lead to Canadian Pharmacy Sites
We’re seeing a number of emails claiming that image files have been uploaded to the web, or have simply been damaged…
$10.5 Million Shell Oil Promo 419 Scam
From the spam traps, currently sent out from a Gmail address: HEAD OFFICE ADDRESS: PLOT 33, ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA WAY. CENTRAL…
Gaming Site is New Home to Spammed Free Movie Links
Blogging platforms such as WordPress and Blogger, forums and (sometimes) article comment sections can be a good real estate to spot posts that may be…
A RAT in Bird’s clothing
Some folks worry when they get a malicious e-mail, Facebook update or Tweet from some untrusted account with a suspicious link…
eBay Giftcard Spam Mails in Circulation
From the spam traps, a mail landing unannounced in a mailbox near you: It reads: * * * * * *…