- Company That Sold Fake Followers Settles Fraud Allegations
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 31, 2019
In what's being hailed as a first, a company that sold fa ...
- Phishing Attacks Are Up, But False Positives Abound: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 31, 2019
Brand impersonation attacks are on the rise, with Microsoft the most impersonat ...
- City Of Pasadena Says Survey Email Is A Fraud
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, January 28, 2019
An email survey sent to Pasadena, California residents was declared fraudulent ...
- CHEQ, RiskIQ Partnership Protects Brands, Publishers, Consumers
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 25, 2019
CHEQ and RiskIQ plan to announce a partnership that provides advertisers a ...
- Corrupt Creative: The Top Ten Phishing Subject Lines Of 2018
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 24, 2019
Each of these successful gems falls into one of five categories: deliver ...
- GoDaddy Flaw Opened Door To Bomb Threat Email: Report
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 23, 2019
A weakness at GoDaddy allowed scammers to hijack the domains of sever ...
- BBB Warns Of Government Shutdown Email Fraud
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Scammers are taking advantage of consumer needs and the shutdown of regulato ...
- Scammers Exploit Government Shutdown In Emails, Police Say
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, January 14, 2019
Typically, the scam artists threaten loss of benefits unless victims provide person ...
- ABA Warns Members Of Bogus Email Dues Requests
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 10, 2019
The American Bar Association says that scammers are sending email requests f ...
- Comcast Intros AI-Based Home Security System At CES
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Comcast at CES today introduced the national launch of an artificial intelligence-bas ...
- Phishing Artists Use Fake Web Fonts When Hijacking Bank Brand: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 4, 2019
in one case, the criminals copy cleartext from the webpage and pas ...
- FTC Warns Of Phishing Scam Using Netflix Name
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, December 26, 2018
The emails urge potential victims to update their Netflix accounts, the F ...
- Nicolls Calls On Industry To 'Identity Proof' For Online Transactions
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 24, 2018
Trust plays a major factor in the relationship between brands and customer ...
- Only One Third Of Emails Make It Into Corporate Inboxes: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, December 21, 2018
Impersonation attacks are shifting from domain-name spoofing to friendly domain-name spam. ...
- YouTube Cracks Down On Spam Accounts
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Friday, December 14, 2018
YouTube told creators: "You may see a noticeable decrease in your subscrib ...
- Holiday Phishing Emails Use Variants To Get Around Filters
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, December 14, 2018
EdgeWave has also detected a malicious email spoofing Microsoft Office 365. ...
- Malware Targets Restaurant And Grocery Chains
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 10, 2018
A criminal group has launched a spear-phishing email campaign against large reta ...
- Nigerian Scammers Move To UK And Use Commercial Data To Target Victims: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, December 7, 2018
London Blue has assembled 50,000 profiles, with half of them located ...
- Lloyds Customer To Sue For Coverage Of Email Scam Loss
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 3, 2018
A UK refurbishment firm is preparing to take Lloyds Bank to cou ...
- As Industry Fraud Concerns Persist, Pixalate Expands MRC Accreditations
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Pixalate says it is the first solution to be accredited across a ...
- Holiday Email Gift Card Scheme Threatens Companies: Barracuda
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, November 29, 2018
Attackers impersonate CEOs and use other tricks to get information from unsuspecti ...
- Online Payment Fraud To Reach $48B: Study
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Monday, November 26, 2018
A major driver behind an increase in fraud is the shift ...
- Hotels And Restaurants Affected By Email Breach
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, November 26, 2018
A security breach has several hotels and restaurants with Mailchimp accounts. Gues ...
- Email Scam Promises Black Friday Bitcoin Discount
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, November 23, 2018
Uphold says the Wednesday email is a phishing attempt, and warns th ...
- Fake Emails Expected To Surge This Week
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, November 19, 2018
Valimail detected massive spikes in 2017, with the peak being the Saturd ...
- Connected TV-OTT Ad Fraud Is Rising
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 16, 2018
To generate fraudulent impressions, the botnet spoofs real publishers' URLs, sending fal ...
- Pixalate Secures MRC Accreditation For OTT Ad Fraud Detection
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Pixalate says it has become the first company to receive Media Rati ...
- Trump The Spam King: President's Name Tops Email Subject Lines
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Donald Trump dominated the election. And he also led in spam subje ...
- NYU Research Team Develops Tool To Fight Email Crime
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, November 6, 2018
A New York University research team has created a visual analytics to ...
- Voters Are Suckers For Fake Political Emails: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, November 2, 2018
People are especially prone to falling for emails pretending to be fr ...