A wave of Russian dating spam drags users to a dangerous website loaded with Javascript malware. The Bitdefender Labs discovered an increasing number of e-mails designed to play on users’ virility to spread to inboxes worldwide. The Russian girls’ messages are straightforward and efficient, prompting users to respond fast to the bait. “Let’s act on our feelings and get to know one another,” one of the infec...
You will lose all respect for cyber-criminals after reading this blog post! After sending out rumors Rihanna and Miley Cyrus have died, Facebook scammers are again spreading “embarrassing” videos with the two American celebrities to steal users’ credentials and money through bogus surveys. Users can’t get enough of sexy videos with celebrities! So scammers “resurrected” two of the most popular American star...
Just as all other pop-culture ephemerids, the Gangnam craze has caught us in its maze. College fresher statement video? Do it Gangnam style! Internet meme that’s bound to propel you to online social heaven? Gangnam, again. Tons of parodies for your own 15 minutes of fame? Gan-gnam, gan-gnam, gan-gnam. It’s THE thing to have, do, imitate, show or look at. So, what happens now in the Scammersmith family’s bac...
A Facebook post made to resemble a breaking news announcement about a Miley Cyrus sex tape brings tagjacking back into the social scam spotlight. The huge thumbnail propagating the scam displays a closeup of the singer, apparently in a state of rapture. The news crawler aims to hit it big with the leaked tape announcement by throwing in the “minor” detail of the “millions of men [having] called in sick afte...
An old timer of the social scam trade – a lose weight advertisement - is now adorned with links to Yahoo! groups. Scammers manage, in this way, to tune up their masterpieces of deceit in such a way as to persuade both the public at large and scam detection engines, which would not normally ban Yahoo! links. The message that helps spread the scam is basically: “if you want to lose weight you should try HCG! ...
Shopping tip of the day: don’t take free shoe offers on Facebook at face value. One look at the page that asks for a Like & Share tribute will give you an idea of what it’s like to walk in Loubouscammers or Blahnitricksters. Putting our hippest foot forward, we get caught in a truly enlightening convers(e)ation on manners. This is where we find out that it’s polite to wave and smile or just nod (but no...
If you are NOT one of the 4.7 million people to have financially fueled the biggest PC game launch in history, but instead crave a free battle with Azmodan, the Lord of Sin, and Belial, the Lord of Lies, prepare for some bruises from the real world as well. We’ve all found out (ever since before the beginning of the glittery 80s) that video has, indeed, killed the radio star. No news to be broken on the vid...
Facebook scams based on promised revelations about Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez’s relationship/sexual identity crises have been around for a while. They’ve acquired the status of scam classics so that any addition to the Teen Queen and King’s online Love Saga is now likely to evoke tender nostalgia among online voyeurs. What on earth have they done this time according to scammy reports? As always, J&S...
Get your [colors of the rainbow] Facebook and its kin back in business, parallel legitimate “Timeline removal” movement just a matter of perspective Ever since the Timeline entered the social media scene, plenty of angry voices clamored for their Old Facebook in high pitched diatribes against the blasphemous Facebook account makeovers. Scammers exploited protesters’ arduous cries and went about their busine...
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