Anti-Scam Message Hits YouTube
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Freddie Mac is hoping YouTube can help prevent troubled borrowers from losing their homes, or at least help them preserve their equity.
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Google posts new videos on YouTube explaining its privacy settings in products as part of a privacy offensive.
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Fraudsters are targeting troubled  borrowers facing foreclosure in a scheme that could leave  homeowners with even more debt than they otherwise would face,  a new online video warns.
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New service helps companies thwart online scams.
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YouTube members are filling the site with videos that parody the recent "I'm a Mac" - "I'm a PC" advertising campaign.
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InfoWorld - Some Macintosh users have encountered a security program whose function and Web site have the tell-tale signs of a scam.
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Nice play on words from the Yahoo Search Marketing team as PepperJam reports on the back and forth requests for credits due to apparent &#8216;click fraud&#8217; or fraudulent clicks on a YSM contextual targeting account.  Instead of calling the mystery clicks fraudulent, Yahoo instead granted a refund of the questioned marketing spend in the name [...]
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A screensaver targeting spam-related websites appears to have been too successful.
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Cad dowser shrink-wrapped in catch-22 YouTubers have Christopher "Jedi" Knight. And eBayers have Tim "Happy Hour" Vernor.â¦
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Alternative browser features protection against online scams.
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The scamsters, who target get-rich-quick stock shoppers, have a new attention-getter in their pitch repertoire: high-quality video. (The quality of the pitches, alas, remains  the same.)
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With consumers finally getting wise to phishing attacks, scammers are hitting the phones.The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation&#39;s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warned Thursday that so-called &quot;vishing&quot; attacks are on the rise. These are scams where criminals send an e-mail or text message to a victim, saying there has been a security problem and the victim needs to call his or her bank to reactivate a credit or debit card.&quot;Upon calling the telephone number, the recipient is greeted with &#39;Welcome to the bank of ...&#39; and then [is] requested to enter their card number in order to resolve a pending security issue,&quot; the IC3 said in its alert.In the past few years, inexpensive VoIP&#160;technology and open-source call-center software has made it inexpensive for scammers to set up phony call centers, paving the way for these new types of scams. Security experts say that vishing can be more effective than traditional phishing techniques -- which direct victims to fake Web sites -- because the voice-based attacks have not been as widely publicized.A new vishing scam involves sending text messages to cell phones, instructing victims to contact the fake online bank to renew their accounts, the IC3 said.Those who are unsure whether they have been targeted by this scam should look up the bank&#39;s phone number and call the bank directly, the IC3 advises.Operated in partnership with the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, the IC3 is a clearing house for Internet crime complaints.
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An unsolicited marketing message irritates an Edinburgh man and earns its sender a lawsuit -- and a $1,445 fine for damages. Is your inbox a gold mine? By the Associated Press.
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UK contributors to YouTube will get the chance to earn money from advertisements.
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Do-it-yourself phishing kits are being made available for download free of charge from the internet, security watchers have warned.
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GADFLY ALREADY the internet age has given us 'phishing', when criminals use emails to persuade you to give them your bank details.  Now it seems we have the less crooked but nonetheless enraging online experience of 'philfing'  an acronym for 'purposely hiding what I'm looking for'.
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Q: I have been receiving an increasing number of e-mail requests to participate in financial schemes that are clearly bogus and illegal.