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Nigerian 419 scam on LinkedIn

2008-04-24 18:41:39 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...Nigerian "4-1-9" scams...In the most recent outbreak of the Nigerian scam -- an advance fee fraud that is estimated to gross hundreds of millions of dollars annually -- the scam letter is sent as a LinkedIn or other social networking sites' invite to join the user's network. A profile page is established with the social networking site, to...
 
Tags: social networks, social, nigerian, scam letter, user, sites, nigerian scam, advance fee fraud, user accounts
 
 
 
 
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Nigerian gets 18 months for cyber attack on NASA employee

2008-05-01 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A Nigerian man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for infecting the computer of a NASA worker with malware and stealing personal information
 
Tags: nasa worker, nigerian, personal information, months, malware, computer, prison
 
 
 
 
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Nigerian gets 18 months for cyberattack on NASA employee

2008-05-01 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b7cc28 in Network World on Security
 
A Nigerian man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for wooing a NASA employee so he could sneak malware onto her work computer and steal passwords, banking information and 25,000 screen shots
 
Tags: nasa employee, nigerian, sneak malware, months, passwords, shots, information, prison, computer
 
 
 
 
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Nigerian banks team on cardholders campaign

2008-06-13 00:00:00 by HASH0x847375c in Network World on Security
 
Over 10 Nigerian banks and Interswitch, an electronic transaction switching and payment processing company, joined forces to launch the Cardholders Awareness Campaign in Lagos on Wednesday
 
Tags: nigerian banks, cardholders awareness campaign, electronic transaction, lagos, payment, launch, interswitch, forces, wednesday
 
 
 
 
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Facebook hit by Nigerian 419 scam

2008-11-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473a5c in Network World on Security
 
Scammers are trawling Facebook for victims using a convincing twist on the notorious 'Nigerian 419' scam
 
Tags: nigerian, facebook, scam, notorious, victims, twist, scammers
 
 
 
 
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Who Falls for those Nigerian 419 Scams Anyway?

2008-12-03 08:20:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This is the story of a woman who sent the scammers $400K: She wiped out her husband's retirement account, mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car. Both were already paid for For more than two years, Spears sent tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Everyone she knew, including law enforcement officials, her family and bank...
 
Tags: spears, blind spears, law enforcement officials, scammers 400k, scammers, family car, family, money, retirement account
 
 
 
 
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This American Life on Scamming the Scammers

2008-09-17 14:58:49 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...Nigerian scammers who were being scammed by three other guys. Does it serve them right or is it just dangerous? Either way, its good once in a while to see a case where the scammers get scammed back, instead of unwitting consumers From the Consumerist Last week, This American Life featured a 30-minute piece on people who scam the scammersin...
 
Tags: american life, american life tells, scammers, episode, recent episode, small-time nigerian con, nigerian scammers, western union office, mortal danger
 
 
 
 
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Three plead guilty in Nigerian spam scheme

2008-01-30 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
Three people have pleaded guilty to charges related to spam e-mail that promised U.S. victims millions of dollars from an estate and a lottery, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday Protecting the Enterprise Network Through Web Security Advertisement New focus is being placed on securing Web-based threats
 
Tags: enterprise network, web security, guilty, spam e-mail, victims millions, advertisement, department, estate, lottery
 
 
 
 
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Spam - still hard to stomach

2008-04-07 11:46:45 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...Nigerian 419 messages at their work email addresses and fell for the scam. They now blame the company for not taking adequate measures to protect them (from their own gullability). An interesting perspective that I hadn't previously considered. There is little humour to be had in spam. Much of it is vulgar, some of it offensive, some of it...
 
Tags: email addresses online, email addresses, spam, email, spam issue, messages, spam accounts, user awareness messages, email alert
 
 
 
 
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Web scam suicide

2008-05-02 16:19:57 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog