Phishing | Oluniyi D. Ajao

Dealing Spammers/Scammers a deadly blow

Saturday, December 22, 2007

I have a friend over at “Yomi Says“. We have a few things in common that I am aware of. Some are: we both blog, we both run web hosting operations, we both hate spammers/scammers! He even has a category on his personal blog called “Hall of Shame“, where he exposes some of the scammers [...]

Nigeria: Beware of Fake Nigeria Immigration Service, Central Bank, oil company websites

Monday, August 20, 2007

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Another common form of cybercrime is phishing. As a matter of fact, financial institution websites are amongst the most commonly phished websites today. According to Wikipedia: In computing, phishing is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques. Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a [...]