Collaborate Disseminate
Far too many individuals who have never been victims of identity theft and financial crimes don’t understand how devastating those are to victims. “There are many victim services organizations that assist violent crime victims and the under… Continue reading Identity theft victims could lead us to accept more security-improving friction
I have got a slightly unusual potential scam / phishing / ID and money theft or fake goods scam to report on today. Yesterday I received a message via our submission form about a look-a-like site selling Bose products. The reporter was a bit concerned,… Continue reading Fake Bose site selling goods at stupid prices.
This set of phishing scams is noteworthy because the emails all originate from a compromised email account belonging to the Mexican Government or at least using the Mexico Gov domain. It seems to track back to the Ministry of Justice of Guanajuato stat… Continue reading various phishing scams via compromised Mexican Gov email address
This appears to be a phishing scam like I’ve never encountered before.
I received an email from security@mail.instagram.com to an email address I rarely use, but I noticed it because messages get forwarded to my main email a… Continue reading Bogus Instagram account using my email, never been verified, has over 1000 followers
The Choicelunch CFO is accused of hacking student data out of The LunchMaster’s site and anonymously ratting it out for bad security. Continue reading School lunch company exec arrested for skewering rival’s site
I was sent the details of a very interesting and extremely well done phishing scam, that pretends to be a Council Tax refund. The scammers have chosen an extremely good domain name to perform the scam & copied almost exactly the genuine Gov.uk si… Continue reading Fake Council Tax refund phishing scam
U.S. authorities have charged a Russian citizen in a scam that netted $1.5 million through bogus tax returns between June 2014 and November 2016, the Department of Justice announced Monday. Anton Bogdanov — who went by “Kusok,” according to court documents — is accused of computer intrusion, aggravated identity theft and other wrongdoing as part of his alleged role in a plot to combine hacking with traditional fraud techniques to steal money from the U.S. government. Bogdanov and others leveraged access to hacked computers at private U.S. tax preparation firms to steal individuals’ personal information, exploiting a vulnerability in an unnamed remote access program used by accountants to log in from home and while traveling, according to the indictment. They allegedly would use that access to change the information on victims’ tax returns, and redirect their refunds to debit cards under the thieves’ control, according to the Justice Department. Those debit cards […]
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I have had several accounts opened up in my name. When I spoke to one of the account holders they said the order was placed from my ISP. No one in my house could have opened that account. It is possible for a neighbor to use … Continue reading Identity Theft and ISP
I have started receiving unexpected emails from Yorkshire Bank.
I have never been a customer. I don’t recall applying for any of their products either, although maybe I did many years ago.
The first of the strange emails r… Continue reading Unexpected email from Yorkshire Bank
People trust banks and other financial entities to safeguard their personal data more than other organizations. New nCipher Security research also illustrates how easily that trust can be eroded, along with Americans’ personal data protection concerns … Continue reading Consumers trust banks most with their personal data, 68% still fear identity theft