BBB warns consumers about fake email claiming to be from Better Business Bureau

Dec. 7, 2011   2 Comments  

MARLBOROUGH — The Better Business Bureau issued an urgent SCAM alert cautioning businesses and consumers about an email that looks like it is from BBB, with the subject line “Complaint from your customers.” This e-mail is fraudulent. BBB warns you to ignore its contents and delete it immediately. If you have already clicked on a [...]

Walgreens alerts users to email list leak

Dec. 10, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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No prescription or credit card information stolen

Facebook instant messaging spam

Oct. 17, 2008   2 Comments  

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Nothing is sacred. Nothing is pure. You bastards.

Spring cleaning in cyberspace

April 30, 2008   Leave a Comment  

10 tips for improving email productivity

DOJ serves karma, indictments to spammers

Jan. 3, 2008   Leave a Comment  

On Thursday, some good news hit the battered lungs of a billion junk email filters like pure oxygen: Eleven of the world’s most prolific spammers — nine of whom live in the U.S. — were indicted by the Department of Justice. According to papers unsealed in Detroit, the electronic highwaymen, facing a 41-count indictment, are [...]

Now it’s MP3 spam…

Oct. 18, 2007   1 Comment  

Mp3 Spam

Internet security firms are reporting a new trend in the “pump-and-dump” spam world — e-mails containing MP3 advertisements. McAfee Avert Labs reported the phenomenon yesterday. “The spammed MP3 attachments promote a company enjoying huge success in Canada and expecting amazing results in the USA,” wrote McAfee’s Vinoo Thomas “These audio files are of very poor [...]