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Offline Pondus

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Swine Flu Vaccine Phishing Scam
« on: December 08, 2009, 04:23:02 PM »
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We’ve already seen a high amount of bad online behavior taking advantage of the H1N1, or swine flu, outbreak in the past few months. Early this spring, cyber scammers were quick to capitalize on swine flu fears to infect computers, steal personal information, and make profits. After all, from the cyber criminals' perspective, the topic has all the right characteristics needed to pull off an online scam: a global nature, a hot media-hyped issue, and high levels of curiosity and concern by the general public.
http://lavasoft.com/mylavasoft/company/blog/swine-flu-vaccine-phishing-scam

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Re: Swine Flu Vaccine Phishing Scam
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2009, 05:57:36 PM »
Next it'll be something about Tiger Woods...
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Re: Swine Flu Vaccine Phishing Scam
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2009, 06:02:55 PM »
Am I surprised? No...any subject in the media will have an associated story like this to go with it...

Next it'll be something about Tiger Woods...

Think we saw that already...

yep, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=51791.0

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Re: Swine Flu Vaccine Phishing Scam
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2009, 06:20:05 PM »
Figures...
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Re: Swine Flu Vaccine Phishing Scam
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2009, 12:22:10 AM »
Next thing will be avast! Internet Security 5.0 is out.... lol ;)