Web Crooks Scam Marks
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HUNDREDS of shoppers were bombarded with offers of pounds 500 Marks & Spencer vouchers in an internet scam.   They were told to forward the email to 20 other people to pick up the freebie.
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Some Web sites are now offering surfers the chance to download free &quot;phishing kits&quot; containing all the graphics, Web code and text required to construct the kind of bogus Web sites used in Internet phishing scams.
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Criminals are auctioning stolen goods for a profit on the Internet.
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Would-be borrowers in the U.S. and Canada are being bilked out of thousands of dollars by unscrupulous online lenders.
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New service helps companies thwart online scams.
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Why settle for just emptying an online bank account? Scammers conned both a mortgage firm and a bank to hit an IT director for Â£60,000. UK police are hunting the gang responsible for the scam, and at least nine others like it, that are estimated to have netted ID fraudsters hundreds of thousands of pounds, The Times reports.â¦
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There's a new kind of theft growing in popularity -- be careful!
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By TOM BODDEN Welsh Affairs Correspondent  BARGAIN hunters in North Wales were warned yesterday to beware of "unbelievable offers".   Scams ranging from bogus holiday clubs to dodgy sweepstakes, miracle cures to fake foreign lotteries, are aiming to catch the unwary.
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With phishing attacks skyrocketing, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a consumer alert detailing ways Web surfers can avoid being fleeced by online scammers.
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Junk e-mailers are using free Web pages to disguise spam sources, manipulate search engines.
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Scammers are sending out fake security bulletins that attempt to install malicious software on victim's PCs.
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By Hannah Baker  INTERNET shoppers were today warned to beware web auction sellers in the West Midlands making a killing on selling fake goods.   Trading Standards officers in the area have discovered counterfeit clothing, handbags and DVDs sold in large quantities on the ebay site.
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INTERNET banking users beware, there appears to be a new "phishing" method about.   The technique, which avoids most detection systems, works after you log on to an authentic site.
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By Kerry Duke  Customers of Fifth Third Bank are being barraged by Internet scam artists who have fired off millions of e-mail messages in the name of the bank to try to trick customers into revealing personal identity information, the bank and law enforcement agencies say.
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Pay up or you'll never see your data again Pond-dwelling scammers have developed a new cyber-extortion ruse.â¦
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Phishing scams, already one of the main nemesis on the Net, have apparently just become even more sneaky -- and ingenious. Now, it appears phishing authors are borrowing some time-tested tactics
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By Elwin Green, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 4--This week's scam may be inoperative by the time you read this,  but on the Internet, one never knows.   The senders of the e-mail pose as BB&T Co., the Raleigh-Durham,  N.C.-based bank.