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It's a telephone number and it's cropping up in all kinds of places, including a PayPal / Target / Apple iPhone scam that arrived in our own mailbox this morning.

CoNet Section: 
IT & Communications

Phishing: IMF used as hook

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This is so amateur that it's worth our publishing it. The "reply to" address is at a free and anonymous mail account in Hungary: georgievakristalina01@vipmail.hu . But there is something interesting.

FCRO Subsection: 
The Phishermans's Tale

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Bank scam-scam - Santander UK

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This spam scam is a fake from Santander in the UK

BIScom Subsection: 
Account security

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Current top three spam TLDs

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What top level domains are at the heart of most of the spam that comes into your servers? Here's our current top three ....

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Ultra-sneaky dangerous e-mail.

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This might just be the e-mail that launches a million problems, or more. It is incredibly simple and extremely sneaky. And it passes some anti-spam filters.

FCRO Subsection: 
Financial Crime News

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email spam scam may take in the unaware

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The email below has come to our attention today. using a landing page at mybluemix[dot]com and a (perhaps spoofed) address at the domain masew.ml, the scam has characteristics that instantly give it away to the alert but will trap the unwary.

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Bitcoin (s)extortionists change tactics

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The flood of sextortion e-mails demanding payment in bitcoin continues. However, while the body of the mails is increasingly standardised, the anti-avoidance methods used by the criminals is mutating, analysis of reports at GlobalKYC.com indicates.

CoNet Section: 
IT & Communications

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Think: what's your message like in your recipient's hands?

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There's a company that wants to build something a bit like Ted Talks. They are called SERMEx and every few days, they issue a "call for papers." It might be interesting. if we could understand what their email says.

See if you've any clue.

CoNet Section: 
Marketing / Sales

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Fake domain: Western Union

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A scam-spam has been received from the fake internet domain WESTEMUNION.COM

(see update, below)

BIScom Subsection: 
Risk Management

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What is "Spear Phishing" ?

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Today, the US cyber security office, US-CERT has issued a renewed warning about HIDDEN COBRA which it describes as a "spear phishing" virus.

What does that mean?

CoNet Section: 
IT & Communications

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Fraud / Security Alert: New spam-scam has high chance of success

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A new form of spam-scam has come to our attention. We understand that this has not been widely seen before. Its nature is that it is likely that many receiving the email will click on links.

CoNet Section: 
IT & Communications

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5 words and phrases that send e-mail straight to the bin

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How much do you hate e-mail? What between scams, unsolicited commercial mail and random weirdness, what turns you off so you don't even read the mail? Here's five. Members .. add your own pet peeves.

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Alert: Dangerous spam-scam using Scotia Bank secure e-mail as cover

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A form of scam spam has come to our notice this morning. It is unusually convincing and clever.

It purports to come from Scotia Bank's secure e-mail service but, obviously, it does not.

Details below.

CoNet Section: 
IT & Communications

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When private e-mails get into the wild.

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First published on 14 December 2000 in World Money Laundering Report Volume 2 Number 9

Originally, we were going to put this item in Flip Side, but then we decided that it was so mad that it was serious.

In the beginning, an e-mail was sent from a woman working in a City law firm to one of her male pals.....

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