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Coverage of active online scams, phishing campaigns, and fraud operations targeting consumers and businesses. Articles document how scams operate, what messages or tactics are used, and how victims are targeted, with clear guidance on identifying, avoiding, and reporting fraudulent activity. Coverage includes email scams, SMS phishing, fake giveaways, impersonation fraud, and financial scams affecting major brands and platforms.

Scams

Facebook Scam: Facebook Black Scam (Add It Today, Get The New Facebook Black Scam)

One of most common scams on Facebook is the change your Facebook black scam. The Facebook black scam is essentially a tag-jacking and survey scam, that may either hijack a Facebook account and post spam content, including the Facebook black scam with a large amount friends tagged to the post, or make it’s victims participate in an unnecessary and unethical survey. The Facebook black scam is also associated with malware. Many victims of the Facebook black scam have reported symptoms of a malware infection following the Facebook scam. The change your Facebook black scam has been circulating on Facebook since 2012 and mostly targets intrigued Facebook users who believe that they can change their Facebook theme color from blue to black. A similar Facebook color scam is the Facebook Red scam.

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Phishing Website: Treyeats.com – Flash Player Pro Scam

Treyeats.com is a phishing website involved in Fake Flash Player scams. Cyber criminals use Treyeats.com to infect unsuspecting victims with malware, and collect personal data. Alike other Flash Player pshing websites such as Update91.com, Treyeats.com primarily conducts Macromedia Flash Player and Flash Player Pro internet scams by displaying popup alert windows that state WARNING! Your Flash Player may be out of date. Please update to continue.

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Phishing Website: Update91.com – Flash Player Pro

Update91.com is a malicious phishing website used to infect computer systems with unwanted software, including malware, and collect personal data. Update91.com primarily conducts Macromedia Flash Player and Flash Player Pro internet scams by displaying popup alert windows that state WARNING! Your Flash Player may be out of date. Please update to continue, in attempt to persuade unsuspecting internet users to click malicious links.

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Phishing Email: lad98@netinformatica.net

The email address lad98@netinformatica.net is involved in phishing attempts that include malicious emails containing links that initiate the installment of malware, viruses. The email address also participates in additional unethical techniques utilized to direct traffic to suspicious and unidentified websites. Significant amounts of phishing attempts associated with the email address lad98@netinformatica.net consist of fake PayPal receipts.

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Email Phishing Scam: Buy- LUXURY WATCHES,JEWELRY and ACCESSORIES,BAGS and WALLETS – CHRISTMAS SALE!!

Warning, malicious email phishing attempts with the email subject line similar to Buy- LUXURY WATCHES,JEWELRY and ACCESSORIES,BAGS and WALLETS - CHRISTMAS SALE!!. This email message is a phishing attempt sent by cyber criminals, that tries to appear as a legitimate email message containing information about jewelry sales and may even post an image of watches for sale in the email body (as pictured below). DO NOT CLICK LINKS in the fraudulent email message. The links contained in the "luxury watch spam email message" are likely malicious and may infect an unsuspecting user with malware, including spyware.

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Phishing Website: Aputimes.com

Aputimes.com is a phishing website involved in severe cyber crime, including credit theft and extortion. Aputimes.com was designed to trick visitors to disclose information including usernames and passwords for email and bank accounts such as hotmail.com, live.com. and gmail.com.

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Visa250.com Scam “Free $250 Visa Prepaid Giftcard”

The visa250.com scam is a common telephone scam where the victim receives a text message stating that they have won a "free $250 Visa prepaid giftcard". Clicking links provided in the text message may install malware to the cellular phone or computer system including adware and spyware. This is also similar to many scam surveys where the primary purpose of the phishing attempt is to direct the phone or internet user to suspicious surveys. These surveys often state that they must be filled out before receiving the free $250 prepaid Visa gift card. Please note, you did not actually win and will not receive a free $250 Visa gift card.

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Telephone Number: (724) 603-5821 is used in Craigslist And PayPal scams

Warning! (724) 603-5821 is a telephone number from Pennsylvania that is used in severe forms of criminal phishing scams. The criminal attempts to purchase a computer by responding to the Craigslist post via text message, stating the computer is being purchased for another individual, most likely a family member such as a daughter or son, and say that they will pay over PayPal and include an additional sum of money for shipping the computer to a country outside of the United States such as Africa. The sender asks for the sellers PayPal email address in order to pay for the item and also asks the Craigslist seller sends images to a random email address. It has been concluded that malicious individual(s) using telephone number frequently use the alias Alex Kane, connected to a fraudulent email such as alexkane54@gmail.com and service_tracker@in.com.

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Facebook Scam: Facebook Red Scam (Change Your Facebook Template R3D Scam)

One of the most <em>popular <a title="http://botcrawl.com/tag/facebook/" href="http://botcrawl.com/tag/facebook/">Facebook</a> <a title="http://botcrawl.com/tag/scams/" href="http://botcrawl.com/tag/scams/">scams</a> in early 2013</em> is the change your Facebook red scam, also referred to as the Facebook Red Scam, Facebook R3D scam. The Facebook Red scam works different ways, be that clicking a link associated with Facebook Red and Facebook Red posts may <strong>install malware to the computer system</strong> and internet browser including adware, browser hijackers, and spyware. The Facebook Red scam may even direct the Facebook user to an unwanted survey, direct the Facebook user to a website hosting additional malware or drive-by download website, and/or simply not perform as advertised, meaning the Facebook Red <strong>will not actually turn your Facebook template color from blue to red.</strong>

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LEGAL NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF CLASS ACTION Scam

Many Facebook users have received the Facebook LEGAL NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF CLASS ACTION email and suspected it as being spam, or some sort of phishing attempt. Though the email may seem alike many spam emails now a days, the email is not spam, the email and message detailed in the email is legitimate.

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Email Phishing Alert: Fake INCOMING FAX REPORT Email

A new email scam has been publicly distributed today by cyber criminals whom attempt to persuade victims into opening the email in order to click a malicious link that is capable of downloading malware to the computer system and directing the victim to a download-drive-by site or other malicious website. The email is sent from Incoming Fax with the subject link similar to “INCOMING FAX REPORT : Remote ID: 8169349218“.

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