Email Scam

A Kalamazoo County man got the surprise of his life when he won $416,322 in the Michigan Lottery.

JPMorgan's British retail bank Chase will ban crypto transactions made by customers from October 16 due to an increase in fraud and scams, the company said on Tuesday.

The email said that the company would neither be able to ship their order nor issue a refund.

A food delivery scam taking place on the popular application Zomato has been unearthed. A user named Vinay Sati took to LinkedIn to share his experience.

The Press Information Bureau (PIB) is alerting people not to fall prey to fake job alerts on messages, emails or websites.

Email scams are getting more personal, as scammers have begun targeting users with personalised messages. LinkedIn accounted for 52 percent of all phishing scams globally in Q1 2022, while data from Google Safe Browsing reveals there are now nearly 75 times as many phishing sites as there are malware sites. Con artists are using new, chilling tacti...

The Business Email Compromise Scam is the costliest type of cybercrime in the US, says the FBI. In these kinds of scams, the criminals hack email accounts, pretend to be someone else, and convince victims to send money.

Scammers pretend to be legitimate sellers by using a fake website or a fake ad on a genuine retailer site or even by sending text messages and emails to trap unsuspecting customers.

Ghimob is spread via email that pretends to be from a creditor and provides a link where the recipient could view more information, while the app itself pretends to be Google Defender, Google Docs, WhatsApp Updater, etc. If the recipient falls for the scam and clicks on the link, the Trojan gets downloaded on their handsets.

India's federal cybersecurity agency has alerted internet users against an ongoing "fake" email campaign that claims to have recorded personal video of a user which could be published if a ransom amount in crypto-currency is not paid.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has warned of a new email extortion campaign that scammers have started on the Web to force people to send money by professing to have hacked their systems.

Although the overall number of these attacks is still low compared to other threats, the threat is growing quickly.

London-based cyber-security company Certfa tied the impersonation of a veteran Iranian-American journalist Farnaz Fassihi to a hacking group nicknamed Charming Kitten, which has long been associated with Iran.

The CBI has registered a case against top officials of a public sector helicopter service company on the basis of a Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) complaint that they had transferred Rs 1.85 crore to a fake bank account in Indonesia instead of a Russian firm contracted for servicing chopper engines in 2016. The objective of the probe is to chec...

Former Chief Justice of India RM Lodha was cheated of Rs 1 lakh in an online scam after the email account of his friend, a retired judge, was hacked, a police officer said on Sunday.

A Kalamazoo County man got the surprise of his life when he won $416,322 in the Michigan Lottery.

JPMorgan's British retail bank Chase will ban crypto transactions made by customers from October 16 due to an increase in fraud and scams, the company said on Tuesday.

The email said that the company would neither be able to ship their order nor issue a refund.

A food delivery scam taking place on the popular application Zomato has been unearthed. A user named Vinay Sati took to LinkedIn to share his experience.

The Press Information Bureau (PIB) is alerting people not to fall prey to fake job alerts on messages, emails or websites.

Email scams are getting more personal, as scammers have begun targeting users with personalised messages. LinkedIn accounted for 52 percent of all phishing scams globally in Q1 2022, while data from Google Safe Browsing reveals there are now nearly 75 times as many phishing sites as there are malware sites. Con artists are using new, chilling tacti...

The Business Email Compromise Scam is the costliest type of cybercrime in the US, says the FBI. In these kinds of scams, the criminals hack email accounts, pretend to be someone else, and convince victims to send money.

Scammers pretend to be legitimate sellers by using a fake website or a fake ad on a genuine retailer site or even by sending text messages and emails to trap unsuspecting customers.

Ghimob is spread via email that pretends to be from a creditor and provides a link where the recipient could view more information, while the app itself pretends to be Google Defender, Google Docs, WhatsApp Updater, etc. If the recipient falls for the scam and clicks on the link, the Trojan gets downloaded on their handsets.

India's federal cybersecurity agency has alerted internet users against an ongoing "fake" email campaign that claims to have recorded personal video of a user which could be published if a ransom amount in crypto-currency is not paid.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has warned of a new email extortion campaign that scammers have started on the Web to force people to send money by professing to have hacked their systems.

Although the overall number of these attacks is still low compared to other threats, the threat is growing quickly.

London-based cyber-security company Certfa tied the impersonation of a veteran Iranian-American journalist Farnaz Fassihi to a hacking group nicknamed Charming Kitten, which has long been associated with Iran.

The CBI has registered a case against top officials of a public sector helicopter service company on the basis of a Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) complaint that they had transferred Rs 1.85 crore to a fake bank account in Indonesia instead of a Russian firm contracted for servicing chopper engines in 2016. The objective of the probe is to chec...

Former Chief Justice of India RM Lodha was cheated of Rs 1 lakh in an online scam after the email account of his friend, a retired judge, was hacked, a police officer said on Sunday.