We saw this great post indicating exactly how clueless the average person is when trying to detect spam of phishing schemes in their in-box. The blogger launched a site called SpamorHam.org to see how savvy Internet users were across the board when trying to detect email fraud. Unfortunately, users of the site are failing the test in overwhelming rates.
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Time to Human vs. Time to Sentience
By 4.28.06
With debit card fraud on the rise, banks are getting way hardcore about putting stops on accounts if they notice any slight deviation from normal activity. Unfortunately, their customer service desks haven’t kept pace with the uptick.
Telepickpocketing Phisers Fry Consumers
By 4.26.06
LIke a malignant pile of pustulent bacteria, scammers are constantly evolving.
After Losing Student’s Money, Citibank Badgers Him
By 4.24.06
Joseph is an American student stranded in in Germany after his meagre monies just got jacked via a Citibank security breach, one that Citibank would like to blame him for.
UPDATE: Calls From A Stranger
By 4.21.06
Courtney tips that she’s received a Spanish spam call, this time from 301-392-8219, based out of La Plata, Maryland and registered to Verizon. We’ve also received reports about 305-503-8068. If anyone gets calls from these numbers, report it to your cell phone company and even the police. The police have the ability to access the records to trace these calls back to their source.
UPDATE: Don’t Take Any Wooden Flat Screens
By 4.6.06
Yesterday, we reported on Indiana residents who were duped into buying flat-screen tvs on the street that, upon opening at home, ended up being oven doors. How could anyone be duped by such an inane ruse, we asked ourselves, chomping cigars in our pleather armchairs. Below, detail of the packaging used to wrap the oven doors.
Fry That Phish with PIRT
By 3.29.06
The next time you get an email from your bank, eBay, or even God, trying to scam your account information, don’t let your feelings get hurt, get PIRT: the Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination squad.
ATM Scam UPDATE: Crooks Caught!
By 3.14.06
Rest a little easier, the “Russian Connection” ATM scammers have been captured.
WaMu Helped Give Grandma s Money to Crooks
By 3.14.06
s grandma was defrauded by crooks who exploited a weakness in the WaMu merchant check verification system. Essentially, in order to cash a charge on your account, all a vendor (or in this case, scammer) has to do is get you to record you saying your account number.
ATM Hack Fallout
By 3.12.06
The ATM PIN block attacks has other consequences besides just your money getting siphoned off by scammers 2,000 miles away.
‘The Russian Connection’ ATM Scammers Messed With Texas
By 3.10.06
Here’s a good article on how about 30 people in College Station, TX got hit by thieves operating very similarly to the big ATM scandal we can’t stop talking about. Similarities between these stories and others we’ve posted include:
Consumers with Forced Debit Card Reissues Step Forward
By 3.10.06
More signs point to OfficeDepot/OfficeMax and Sam’s Club/Wal-Mart as being the retailers suspected of letting thousands of customer’s debit cards and PINs to be stolen (see ATM Fraud UPDATE: Wal-Mart, OfficeMax, Sam’s Club, Office Depot Suspected).
ATM Fraud UPDATE: Wal-Mart, OfficeMax, Sam’s Club, Office Depot Suspected
By 3.10.06
A new article by ConsumerAffairs.com claims that the Citibank investigation into thousands of stolen debit cards and PINs centers on two 3rd party retailers.
ATM Fraud Update
By 3.9.06
Ok, so hackers snagged possibly up to six figures of people’s debit card info from an unspecified retailer’s security breach. But who? WHO is the retailer stupid enough to let this happen?
