If you receive a Notice of Unreported Income email from the IRS, beware…the note is a phishing scam.
The fake IRS message regarding income purports itself as a legitimate IRS Notice called a CP2000.
The note claims to be from no-reply@irs.gov but note that this is merely a phony email address.
The Notice of Unreported [...]

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YouTube partners are being hit with a new phishing scam in the form of e-mails that appear to come YouTube teams.  The message of course wants you to reply with your YouTube login info.
The e-mails appear to be evolving…the first wave was pretty amateur looking but the new iterations are much more believeable.
YouTube is aware [...]

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Careful, a new worm is running rampant on Twitter at this hour.
If you see a tweet that says “Best Video” with a link to “http://juste.ru” do NOT click on it.  We’re not sure exactly what this worm does, but if you happen to click on the link, your account could become compromised.
There are reports circulating [...]

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Yawn.  Another day, another Facebook phishing attempt.  Redbuddy.be (or Redbuddy dot be) seems to be the culprit this time.
If you get a message in Facebook pointing you to Redbuddy dot be, do NOT click on it.
Doing so will cause time to stop.  Vehicles will park on parkways and drive on driveways.  Your computer will begin [...]

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This is getting a little ridiculous.  Earlier today we saw the bests.at Facebook phishing scam making the rounds, now users are being directed to http://areps.at.
Do NOT go there.  This is yet another Facebook phishing attempt.
Surely, Facebook is going to have to seriously step up their security efforts to prevent these massive phishing sessions.
See our previous [...]

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I just witnessed this one first-hand.  There was a message in our Facebook box to “check http://bests.at.”
As we’ve stated before, do NOT go there.  This is yet another chapter in the “Facebook phishing message” scam.
If you did somehow get duped into clicking on the link, clear out the cache on your browser, clear all of [...]

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Be careful.  A new Facebook phishing scam has hit the web. These attacks have been coming fast and furious lately.
The latest is one where the subject line simply says “Hello”, and the body of the Facebook email will simply be a the domain 151.im.
This one, unlike the others, is not automatically hyperlinked in Facebook, although [...]

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Here we go again.  First it was FBaction.net, then Kromked.net, and our next contestant is FBstarter.com.
Facebook users are receiving a message that links to a site called FBstarter.com.
This site is another phishing attempt, similar to the one we saw yesterday.  Once again, this will attempt to steal your Facebook login credentials and then send the [...]

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There is a Facebook phishing attack in progress right now.
Victims are receiving an email message that appears to be from Facebook with the subject that reads “Hello.” There is a link in the message that takes you to a site called fbaction.net that looks exactly like the main Facebook login page.
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If you are a customer of Comcast’s internet service, you might just want to go change your password.
It looks like a phishing attack left the usernames and passwords of about 4,000 Comcast customers exposed on the web – for more than two months.
The breech was discovered when Kevin Andreyo, an technology specialist in Pennsylvania and [...]

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