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The BBC News website is a much-loved design institution. A very neat, conservative design it has remained pretty much unchanged since its ...

419 scams often involve pandering to human greed. In this case, the email is clearly designed to make you think that you have lucked into $8...

Is it me, or is the quality of scam spam going down these days? This fake lottery notification doesn't even try to look convincing. Subj...

The UK's premium rate SMS (text messaging) business is worth over £1 billion per year. It's not surprising then that scammers are in...

Millions of people are currently wondering what a "Safari" icon is doing on their Windows desktop. Is it something they installed?...

The Boulder Pledge is an important principle when it comes to fighting spam - basically, it is a commitment to never buy a product advertis...

A very authentic (but fake) trojan was send out overnight purporting to be from Hallmark.com A Friend has sent you a Hallmark E-Card. If you...

McAfee has flagged up another mass defacement on their blog here , various sites have been injected with a reference to hxxp:||www.2117966.n...

I'm not interested in trucks, there is no reason for anyone to send me an email about trucking. And usually, when I see email about ...

There's a whole bunch of spam doing the rounds as follows: Subject: Sell for FREE Forever !!!!!!!!!!!!!! From: stampoffers@yahoo.com Dat...

A few days ago I bought a very inexpensive Toshiba Satellite L40-18Z laptop from Comet in the UK. It's a basic laptop running Windows Vi...

The return of a persistent spam.. which means that plenty of people are falling for it. Hello! I am bored today. I am nice girl that would l...

Dating scams are increasingly common and are something that I've blogged about before . It's really just a variation of the 419 Adva...

Scammers can be quite funny - this one is from someone pretending to be DAIYA PR of Japan. Job opportunity from DAIYA PR Co., Japan Job Loc...

Some sort of modelling scam, sent to an email address from a data breach at an online retailers so you KNOW that it's a fraud. Company ...

Another money mule fraud, this time using the name "Benjamin Vincent Solicitors". Subject: Business Proposal From: ...

It's unusual to see a moneybookers.com phish, but perhaps it shows that the phishers are moving on to different targets. This particula...

I know that it's winter, but in the UK we've had nothing but rain, rain and more rain. Our local river is right up to banks and with...

This is a UK-target scam, using email addresses harvested from an online retailer who had a security breach. This one appears to be more tha...

The BBC have spent a lot of time and money developing the BBC iPlayer it turns out that it's just another P2P application running on Ko...