We were tipped by an alert user (thanks Walt) about this phishing scam targeting F-Secure and Bellsouth.
The fake email used in the attack looks like this:
Please disregard such obvious phishing emails and delete them. Similar attacks have been targeting other operators and other antivirus companies as well.
On 25/07/11 At 02:06 PM
In Kuala Lumpur Malaysia a notorious SMS scam syndicate tricking victims into parting with their money by convincing them that they have won cash prizes has been busted with the arrest of 26 people.
This group is actually part of a SMS scam syndicate we busted last year in Tawau. Police also seized four laptops, 73 handphones, 41 account logbooks, ATM and credit cards and RM6,000 during the raid. Each laptop is able to send out up to 1,000 SMSes a day.
Click here to read the full article.
Here are some ways that you can minimise your exposure to text message spam.
Unfortunately as it becomes more popular it becomes more of a target for unscrupulous developers creating and making available fraudulent applications on the Android Market.
There have purportedly been some bogus online banking applications written by an anonymous developer known as “09Droid”. He (or she) didn’t have just one dodgy application available, but in fact he had decent collection of online banking applications for sale on the Android Market.
Australia’s media watchdog has won a test case against several parties who were running an elaborate text message spamming scheme.
It is the first time the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has brought a spam case involving SMS messages before the courts.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is trying to crack down on a scam in which text messages are sent to mobile phones in a bid to lure money from their owners.
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