The mobile high-tech threat: Smishing

Apr 21, 2009 - The mobile high-tech threat: Smishing Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:55AM EDT What's the best way to disguise a phishing attempt so no one can tell where a request for personal information or a password really came from? Easy: Send it via text message. "Smishing" is the name being given to the not-entirely-new but growing practice of sending phishing come-ons and scams via SMS message. - 6 Comments

Scammers Spread Swine Flu Spam

Apr 29, 2009 - Source Scammers are riding the wave of concern over the swine flu outbreak in their latest attempts to defraud unsuspecting consumers, the Better Business Bureau said. “Scammers read newspapers, watch TV and surf the Internet and they know that by using a hook from the day’s top headlines, that they’ll be able to catch lots of fish,” said Jeannette Kopko, spokesperson for the BBB serving Dallas and Northeast Texas. "Right now, issues associated with swine flu and a potential pandemic are of global interest and that means scammers have a very large pond to go phishing in.” Scam artitsts jumped at the chance to spark their own swine flu spam epidemic as soon as the news of the virus began, according to McAffee Avert Labs, an online security company. - 4 Comments