Tag: Fees
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Advance Fee Fraud Targets Colleges With Free Piano Offers
A malicious email campaign has been discovered leveraging piano-themed messages to perpetrate advance fee fraud (AFF) scams. These …
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UK FCA Warns of Christmas Loan Fee Fraud Surge
The UK’s financial regulator has warned UK households struggling with the high cost of living to be on the lookout for fraudsters …
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CYBER: The Landlord Tech Company That Turned Security Deposits Into a Monthly Fee
This startup disrupted security deposits, and now renters and landlords can’t get them on the …
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Summer Spending Pressure Fuels Loan Fee Fraud Fears
The UK’s financial regulatory has warned consumers to be on the lookout for loan fee fraudsters after revealing new research claiming …
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Advanced Fee Fraud Surges by Over 600%
Advance fee fraud has surged eight-fold between the year ending March 2020 and the year ending December 2022, potentially due to scammers …
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Scam Alert for Dingo Token That Charges 99% Fee
Researchers have warned that a popular cryptocurrency is a scam, after spotting backdoor functionality designed to effectively steal …
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Lloyds Bank Warns of 80% Surge in Advance Fee Scams
A leading UK bank has warned consumers about the rise of scams in which victims are asked to pay an upfront fee for a product or service …
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Loan Fee Fraud Surges by a Fifth as Christmas Approaches
The UK’s financial regulator has warned of an increase in scams promising non-existent loans, as fraudsters look to pressure consumers …
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Cuba Ransomware Extorted Over $60 Million in Ransom Fees from More than 100 Entities
The threat actors behind Cuba (aka COLDDRAW) ransomware have received more than $60 million in ransom payments and compromised over 100 …
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Ransomware Victims Pay $700K in Extra Extortion Fees
A staggering 96% of ransomware victims that agree to their extorters’ demands are subsequently forced to pay additional fees amounting to …
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Hackers Steal Transfer Fees, Cripple Football Stadiums
The UK’s sporting organizations have been told to urgently improve cybersecurity after a new GCHQ report revealed that 70% have …
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UCSF Pays $1.14m Ransomware Fee
The University Of California San Francisco finally confirmed that it had forked over $1.14m to ransomware thieves last week, less than a …
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