The United States continues to be the leader in spam, relaying 15 percent of the world’s spam messages, according to a recent report from Sophos that examines the top 12 spamming countries. The United Kingdom has disappeared from the “Dirty Dozen” for the first time in two years, coming in at 14th overall, and sending [...]

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) has given government agencies and online retailers a failing grade in preventing deceptive email and phishing scams based on its recently released analysis of email authentication adoption. While adoption has grown over the past year, OTA found 56 percent of the top .gov sites – including Whitehouse.gov, FBI.gov, Treasury.gov and [...]

The Federal Trade Commission documented the most cases of identity theft ever in one year in its “2008 Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data.” In 2008, the FTC said it had received about 1,200,000 complaints related to fraud, identity theft and other consumer complaints, representing a 50 percent increase over the previous year. Those consumers [...]

The FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) continue to receive numerous complaints from individuals who have become victims to work-at-home scams and warn consumers to use caution when looking for employment online. These work-at-home schemes are designed by criminals to gain the trust of job seekers in order to take advantage of working [...]

McAfee has released its 2009 threat predictions. The top trend for 2009 is the continued exploitation of the financial crisis to scam users with fake financial services, fake investment firms and fake legal services. “Computer users face a dangerous one-two punch today,” said Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee Avert Labs, McAfee’s research group. [...]

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), along with ICANN Registrar Constituency and a number of domain name registrars, have released a “best practices” advisory for registrars to help them guard against the use of domains to obtain personal financial information. Several globally active registrars have already implemented many of the best practices recommend by APWG including [...]

If you’re reading this blog, then you must have some interest in making money online. If you’re experienced in the field of making money online (like the money007 team) then you will know that looks can be deceiving, and that turning a profit online can be quite difficult at times. These days, there are so [...]