Internet Scams

Internet Scam: Capital One Bank Computer Security

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Here’s another Internet scam you folks should be aware of from Capital One
ATTENTION TO ALL CAPITAL ONE BANK CUSTOMERS
NECESSARY CRITICAL UPDATE
A critical update is available to remove unacceptable symbols from the wire submission page that is included with Capital One Bank Treasury Optimizer.
Critical Updates are intended to fix potential security risks in Business Objects Capital […]

McAfee Releases the “Mapping the Mal Web”

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Inside McAfee’s report, it reveals that 19.2% of all website ending in “.hk” (Hong Kong) pose a security threat to users, the next is “.cn” (China) at 11%. The safest is “.fi” (Finland), followed by “.jp” (Japan).
In regards to generic domain names “.info” poses a security threat of 11.8% being the third most dangerous. […]

Internet Scam: eBanking Services

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Here’s another scam email that you should be aware of sent by eBanking Services:
eBanking-Services
Important Notification:
As the eBanking-Services customer, your privacy and security always come first. We have been dedicated to customer safety and protection, and our mission remains as strong as ever.We inform you that your Business Banking account is about to expire. It […]

Internet Scam: Google AdWords

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Here’s an email from Google Adwords that you should watch out for. Although the email does look legit, but the URL included … /select/ which is quite suspicious as well the email tell you to update your payment information. Once you click on the URL, you can tell the site is closely designed to matched […]

Internet Scam: i-Business Banking

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Hi Folks, here’s another email you should watch out for sent from i-Business Banking:
Important Announcement:
On May 4, 2008 we upgraded your online banking with a few enhancements to several services. To our regret some of our customers notified us that changes in their accounts hadn’t come into effect.
Urgent request to take a short procedure of […]

Internet Scam: Bank of America Alert

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Here is an email you should watch out for, it’s from Bank of America

Internet Scam: HSBC bank: Confirm Your Online Account Details. (message ref: TJ181817861K)

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Here’s another email in which you would need to watch out for.
Subject: ****SPAM(16.4)**** HSBC bank: Confirm Your Online Account Details. (message ref: TJ181817861K)
Dear HSBC bank customer,
We would like to inform you that we are currently carrying out scheduled maintenance.
In order to guarantee the high level of security to our business customers, we require you […]

Internet Scam: Comerica Bank - Your money can be in danger.

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Here’s another email you would need to watch out for.
Subject: Comerica Bank - Your money can be in danger.
Client authentication using digital certificates in COMERICA BANK®
Dear Customer,
Comerica.com site has requested that you identify yourself with a certificate.
The next step in the transformation of Comerica Online is Digital Certificate (DC) access.
This DC will allow you to […]

Internet Scams: $1000’s In Your Paypal Account In A Couple Weeks!!!

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Here is an Internet scam that’s been gone around for some time now, and I’ve received it again so I would like to share it with you.

Subject: $1000’s In Your Paypal Account In A Couple Weeks!!!
$1,000’s Deposited into your PayPal Account
Do this, it’s SO simple…!!!!
Follow the directions below and in a month or less you […]