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Not quite worried enough that identity thieves might empty your bank account or ruin your credit rating with a shopping spree in your name? The FBI says those concerns are small spuds compared to what might happen when crooks parlay identity theft and mortgage fraud into “a totally new kind of crime: house stealing.”

Nigerian scammers have launched a new spam campaign sending fake Google Calendar meeting invitations in an attack targeted towards corporate users, security vendor BitDefender warned today. As the hook to dupe users into opening the message, the emails are personalised and bypass URL filtering with a different link sent to each recipient.

Spam continues to come to a cellphone near you, Trend Micro analysts confirm. Unlike spam received through the email inbox on computers, “text message” spam are actually more costly to the user, as users are charged for any spam they receive.

When businesses want to communicate with their customers via e-mail, many send messages with a bogus return address, e.g. "somethinghere@donotreply.com." The practice is meant to communicate to recipients that any replies will go unread.

Online advertiser ValueClick has agreed to pay a record S$2.9 million to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that it sent deceptive advertising claims in spam e-mail and failed to secure consumers’ sensitive financial information.

As reported in the February State of Spam report, we have observed spammers disguising themselves as the IRS and dangling an offer of a tax refund to unwitting recipients. That is, a refund made available once you input your credit card information into their site.

In the last two months, several Internet security firms have suggested that spammers had devised a way to bust the “captcha” that is protecting Gmail. This would allow them to use the popular e-mail service to drown the rest of the Internet with e-mails containing links to malware and clumsy Viagra propositions.

Martin Lee knew all the reasons you shouldn’t respond to spam e-mails. As a software engineer who studies how to block such messages, he’d warned against answering them himself.

First we had phishing, now we’ve got pharming — a newer buzzword in Internet scams and a computer attack threat that’s especially dangerous for people who use home networks. Why? Because even the best anti-virus software and firewalls can’t detect or stop pharming once it hits your system.

Six botnets are responsible for 85 per cent of all spam, according to an analysis by net security firm Marshal. The Srizbi botnet is reckoned to be the largest single source of spam - accounting for 39 per cent of junk mail messages – followed by the Rustock botnet, responsible for 21 per cent of […]