Collaborate Disseminate
If it seems like you’re receiving more spam than normal, you probably are. Seventy-four percent of consumers say they have received a scam text so far this year, while as many as 83% have received a scam phone call, according to Allstate Identity Prote… Continue reading Fraud trends and scam tactics consumers should be aware of
With Covid-19-related travel restrictions having been dropped by most countries, pleasure-seeking travelers are booking plane tickets, accomodations and tours with a vengeance. Phishers, scammers and malware peddlers are ready to take advantage of the … Continue reading Summer holiday season fuels upswing of travel-themed spam
Truecaller announced a research conducted in partnership with The Harris Poll in March of 2022, and the findings detail trends/insights on the impact of spam and phone scams that have increasingly permeated the U.S. over the last 12 months. The study e… Continue reading $39.5 billion lost to phone scams in last year
HP announced that the HP Wolf Security threat research team has identified a 27-fold increase in detections resulting from Emotet malicious spam campaigns in Q1 2022, compared to Q4 2021 – when Emotet first made its reappearance. The latest global HP W… Continue reading Emotet is the most common malware
I would like to start an intelligence Data Base for the spam messages & calls that I receive on my iPhone with the primary goal of figuring out 1) What they want and 2) How they got my contact information. I could go about this by hand… Continue reading Programmatically Scrape iPhone Messages For Spam With Python/Ruby [migrated]
Third Position shares a report from The Verge: Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is “temporarily on hold” after the social network reported that false or spam accounts comprised less than 5 percent of its 226 million monetizable daily active users… Continue reading Elon Musk Says Twitter Deal ‘Temporarily On Hold Over Spam’
When you receive an email, most email programs will display the sender as a name (chosen by the sender) and hide the actual email address behind it. Spam emails often abuse this by sending mails from something like ‘Microsoft (john.doe@aol… Continue reading How can I receive a (spam) email from an unknown email address?
Is there any way that I can turn neutral email to spam trap?
Recently, an employee got fired and stole emails that belonged to company. They stole users’ first name, last name, email, address. And those emails started receiving spam. So I … Continue reading Data protection against spam [closed]
We are investigating emails which were marked as spam by Cloudmark’s service Cloudmark Authority Engine (CMAE). We want to find out if they are false positives. When an user ask to investigate why a single mail was marked as spam, our appr… Continue reading Spam investigation and email reputation check
FaceTime users are getting bombarded with group calls from numbers they’ve never seen before, often as many as 20 times in short succession during late hours of the night. From a report: Griefers behind the pranks call as many as 31 numbers at a time. … Continue reading FaceTime Users Bombarded With Group Call Spam