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E-mail on marketers' minds
ENN, June 20, 2008 |
| E-mail has become an important tool for marketers, according to e-mail marketing firm Newsweaver. The Cork-based business is basing this claim on a recent E-mail Marketing Insight report, which it conducted in conjunction with The Marketing Institute of Ireland. According to the study 78.1 percent of Irish marketers said that e-mail is either important or very important to their overall marketing strategy. |
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Trademarks, brand names prime targets
livemint.com, June 10, 2008 |
| Brand abuse is common online. MarkMonitor tracked billions of webpages and millions of emails, including listings on online auctions and B2B (business-to-business) exchanges over the first quarter of this year to uncover new trends in brand abuse in its Spring 2008 MarkMonitor Brandjacking Index. Brand abusers are getting more sophisticated in their timing and deployment of misleading websites, finds MarkMonitor. |
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Email scam targets frequent flyers
smarter TRAVEL, June 6, 2008 |
| As do all Internet users, I receive my share of spam and scam in my email inbox. As a longtime Web enthusiast, I thought I'd seen just about every possible permutation of the online hustle. But yesterday a colleague forwarded me an email he deemed suspicious (correctly), and which featured a novel twist. |
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Spear-phishing Attacks Have Hooked 15,000, Says Verisign
PC World, June 5, 2008 |
| Two groups of criminals have stolen data from an estimated 15,000 victims over the past 15 months, using targeted "spear-phishing" e-mail attacks, according to researchers at Verisign. Verisign has tracked 66 of these attacks since February 2007 and believes that two shadowy crime groups are behind 95 percent of the incidents. |
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Fresh phish causes a stink for online banking users
Silicon Republic, May 12, 2008 |
| Internet phishing scams are at an all-time high and Irish banks are being targeted more closely than ever by fraudsters looking to make easy money. |
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Phishing Scammers Get More Creative
Consumer Affairs, May 8, 2008 |
| Who hasn't received a spam email saying their credit or debit card has been deactivated and the consumer needs to call the bank to straighten things out? Usually, that entails providing account numbers, user names and passwords, and other sensitive information. |
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Despite Warnings, More Consumers Fall Victim to Cyber Scams
Consumer Affairs, May 1, 2008 |
| Law enforcement has hardly made a dent in criminals' efforts to use the Internet to rip off consumers and steal their identities. |
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Phishing Season: Fraudsters Step Up Attacks on Financial Institutions
Bank Information Security, April 28, 2008 |
| Arizona Central Credit Union of Phoenix, AZ., was hit with a phishing attack via text message to its members in March. While the attack was distributed on a small scale and didn't have much impact, the incident did roust the credit union staff into quick action. |
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Phishing Attacks Double in U.K.
Techworld.com, April 20, 2008 |
| Phishing attacks on U.K. consumers have more than doubled for the first quarter of this year, according to Apacs, the U.K. payment association. |
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Phishing scam targets MasterCard users
The New Zealand Herald, April 9, 2008 |
| Credit card users should be on their guard as a phishing campaign uses the name of a respected online security system and promises of rewards to steal their details. |
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