According to research by Barclays, the majority of people who have been tricked into giving money to others they met on online dating sites lost over $2,600 USD. 37% of victims gave over $6,500 to fraudsters posing as a love interest, with the 45-64-year-old age bracket at the highest risk....
By RyanKamauff Here are today’s top cyber news and stories. The FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) are warning consumers of enhanced malware – The two latest malware for mobile devices are Loozfon and FinFisher. These target users with phishing emails promising profits. W...
via Government Technology Every year in the United States, more than 40 million people move and approximately 3 million women change their last name. More than 13 million Americans share one of 10 common surnames, tens of millions of consumers use nicknames or initials, and 57 million males have one...
via V3.co.uk Some 21 per cent of UK computer users have been hit by cold call scammers posing as computer security engineers who try to extort cash from them to fix problems which aren’t there, according to the latest research from Microsoft. The firm interviewed 7,000 users across several reg...
via credit.com The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has just revealed some interesting statistics on a burgeoning headache — white-collar Internet crime. Whether its fraudsters impersonating FBI agents or cyber-hackers stealing consumer financial data, the Bureau has its hands full —...
via theday.com Connecticut residents lost more than $3.3 million to computer fraud last year, according to a report released Tuesday by the state Department of Consumer Protection. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, a joint effort between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, said in...
via NetworkWorld It’s a new twist on an old scam. The Army Times newspaper today details the growing trend of fraudsters stealing the identities of US Army soldiers from social network sites and then using that information to set up false profiles on Internet dating sites. The profiles are use...