The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested 26-year old Nichole Michelle Merzi from California, who was convicted of participating in a phishing scheme. As part of an official U.S.-Egyptian operation codenamed Operation Phish Phry, the woman has been identified as a member of a Los Angeles cyber-gang that caused more than $1 million in bank frauds. The six-week trial for Nichole Michelle Merzi’s conviction...

Spammers send almost 300 billion messages a day combined, mostly in English. That’s more than 90 percent of the world’s e-mail traffic. It costs billions of dollars a year in lost productivity, annoys hundreds of millions of people, and seriously harms some of those who fall into the trap. It also means that the vast majority of the world’s e-mail is a babbling, eye-crossing, head-scratching mess of near-ra...

New social networks face classic scams, boundaries between platforms blur Pinterest’s public acknowledgement that it is “not immune to challenges faced by sites across the web including spam and phishing” raises the question of whether online social startups can and will learn from their predecessors’ troubles. Two directions are worth exploring here: baits and sharing mechanisms. Social scams exploit human...

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  More than 5,000 tweets in the past 5 days. Now, that’s a busy scam! Not a very imaginative one, however, as its variants have almost the same wording: The arsenal of persuasion also seems to include words such as “insane, unbelievable, too amazing.” While some variants advertise the giveaway without asking for anything in return, others specify that you need to provide your e-mail a...

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