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Possibly one of the most miserable spam failures I have ever seen - the idiot spammer somehow forgot to populate the % fields with actual da...

A bizarre shot in the security vs usability argument, as reported by El Reg: Masked passwords must go which reports on research saying that...

Flyrating.com is a re-run of the flyappraisals.com scam - a fake domain name evaluation service that is spamvertised through a bogus offer...

This is one of those "wft" spams. Subject: Refund of Duplicate Payment From: "Customer Care Center" Date: ...

This email looks like it's from Microsoft, but it is really intended to load a trojan onto your PC: From: Microsoft Customer Support [ma...

WebTrends is a service I used to run a few years ago for web analytics, until the hundreds of dollars per month it was charging for analytic...

Noooo! According to the Guardian, Personal Computer World is to close after 31 years of publication. I've read it for 29 of those 31 ye...

Another set of injection attacks seem to be doing the rounds, possibly related to the recent Gumblar attack . In this case, the injected cod...

Part of an ongoing domain name scam, flyappraisals.com is a fake domain name appraisal used in conjunction with a bogus unsolicited offer to...

Microsoft is launching a new search engine called bing.com on Monday. Given the current fashion for "reboots" in movies and TV sh...

Podzz.com is the latest incarnation of a fraudulent domain appraisal scam being run out of Canada. The basic pitch is that you receive an u...

I don't usually recycle press releases, but this one is of interest. It's really aimed at mobile phone dealers and details the possi...

Norton Finance are a real company that offers loans, typically to people with poor credit ratings. This lazy scam email is not from Norton...

A straightforward pitch for what is probably a money mule operation. Subject: Looking for a job? More info here From: "...

The British government's stance on Phorm has always been pretty supine. Despite serious allegation of criminal misconduct by Phorm and ...

Another variant of this scam and this scam linked to a guy called Manuel Fichter - the basic pitch is that you get an email offering to bu...

In the past couple of weeks, thousands of websites were hit with an injection attack pointing to gumblar.cn.. this week it has changed to ma...

A strangely worded 419 scam arrived today in a format I haven't seen before. Perhaps the economic downturn is having an effect on the s...

Another EXE-in-ZIP trojan, this time disguised as an Excel spreadsheet. The pitch is: Subject: Western Union Transfer MTCN: 2474153...

I've had a few of these in the past, but this time my spidey sense was tingling. Subject: Roger, Website discussion on April 21st. ...