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- Diablo 3 scam – be careful - We all know that scammers love scandalous, shocking and world-class news that are interesting to everyone from Alaska to Mozambique. These sensations attract the largest pools of people which gives scammers highest chances for success. This time it is the May 16, 2012
- Cybercriminals find ways to use YouTube and Tagged - People who consider their personal information and finances as valuable should always stay focused online because there are new ways to scam people everyday. Some of the most recently revealed ways of phishing online now include YouTube and Tagged. April 19, 2012
- Facebook is used as a tool for targeting Pinterest fans - Cybercriminals have launched a paid marketing campaign on Facebook that helps to target Pinterest users. This enables scammers to make an online social fraud. April 6, 2012
- Scammers hit the Pinterest site's users - Survey spammers targeted new Pinterest site which enables users to share their sites with others. Pinterest enables users to create virtual corkboards. Users may "pin" content from other web pages onto the virtual corkboards and then share their boards wi March 15, 2012
- Another Facebook scam: “OMG.. I Hate Rihanna” - There are 500 million active Facebook users – a fertile ground for cybercriminals to exploit their evil ways of earning money. This time in order to attack Facebook users, criminals utilize a name of a famous U.S. pop star - Rihanna. March 13, 2012
- Terrible news for Whitney Houston's fans but not for cybercriminals - As another talent taken too early, scammers already exposing Whithey Houston's death. The news about singers death spread fast on Internet. Countless tweets, Facebook post on walls were a trigger for scammers to use the World's news for earning money. February 13, 2012
- Love is... money! Valentine's Day scam - As Valentine's Day is almost here, scammers are searching ways to make profit for their selves from unwary users that fall for rogue advertisements, offers and unexpected gifts that supposedly are given to you for free. February 13, 2012
- Google fights Android malware - It is well known problem that the Android App Market has been constantly attacked by scammers. Now Google has released a special filter that automatically scans the newly uploaded apps for malware this way drastically reducing the amount of malware infect February 8, 2012
- Free iPhone 5 on Tumblr? Avoid the scam! - Tumblr blogs are blazing with iPhone 5 presentations and giveaways; unfortunately, the news is far from being genuine. "Get the all new iPhone 5" and similar posts are fraudulent and they are only meant to trick people into filling online surveys. January 30, 2012
- Newest Facebook scam - Russel Brand and Kate Perry leaked tape - Cyber criminals do not stop attacking Facebook users via various scams and it does not seem to stop any time soon. The latest of their scams is about Kate Perry and Russel Brand. Be careful! January 27, 2012
- Scammers utilize the closing of Megaupload - You might already heard about this – one of the largest file sharing sites Megaupload.com has been closed down by the U.S. government and its creator Kim Schmitz aka Kim Dotcom has been arrested in New Zealand. Megaupload lawers are fighting for the rela January 25, 2012
- Facebook users attacked once again - It seems that Facebook is now one of the favorite places for scammers to benefit – they offered fake skins, offered removing the timeline, etc. This time they combined online survey and identity theft – be careful! January 20, 2012
- Scammers utilize Facebook's Timeline to their benefit - Scammers have been long known as a creative gang being able to make use of every little bit of information or event that people may be interested in. Deaths of famous people, scandals, sport events, you name it. Do you remember a recent Facebook Holiday S January 11, 2012
- Be careful as holidays are very profitable season for scammers - The holidays season is just wonderful as it is all about giving and receiving, however it may be unpleasantly disturbed by falling in to a scammers' trap and having to deal with scam related problems. One of those traps – a holiday skin for your Facebook December 27, 2011
- Apple's iPhone 4 more vulnerable after update - Latest reports claim that Siri, a hit personal assistant from Apple which is available only in the iPhone 4S, is one of the most popular features that keeps the sales up. However the recent update made iPhone 4S more vulnerable to the hacker attacks. December 26, 2011
- iPhone 4S holiday scam - If you are looking for cheaper iPhone 4S you may be tricked if not vigilant because holiday season scam is on the web now. Be careful giving your credit card information online. Recently, new phishing scam was found which offers you a cheaper iPhone 4S th December 22, 2011
- iPad scam on Lady Gaga Facebook fan page - Lady Gaga's Facebook page has been hit again. Hackers were able to spread iPad themed scam on the fan page. Because of 45 million Lady Gaga's fans scammers planted rogue Xmas message which claims that famous singer has iPad competition on the back of some December 20, 2011
- Tumblr accounts harvester spotted - Growing blogging platform tumblr.com is already a target of scammers. The website is convenient for frauds to spread as it has easy mechanism to share other users’ content. December 5, 2011
- Be careful Twilight movie fans! - As the excitement of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 1) movie grows scammers are not waiting for November 18th and they are creating malware right now that are widely spreading across the web. November 15, 2011
- Damage after Halloween: new Facebook scam floats - It is not surprising that scammers exploit every bigger event of the world and Halloween wasn’t an exception as well. Facebook users are targeted again with a new scam. The fake message claims that a girl killed herself on Halloween after her father poste November 4, 2011
