Fraud and Scam News

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FBI is sounding fresh alerts to warn citizens of the presence of a new wave of phishing scams online. Fraudsters posing as employees of the IRS or organizations like the well-respected TaxPayer Advocate Service (a part of the IRS) and armed with email addresses like service@irs.gov and tax-refund@irs.gov, maybe on the […]

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Authorities from different states across the US are warning residents of the outbreak of a Text Message Scam. In the manner of other phishing scams, this new type of fraud tries to steal identities of people after contacting them on their mobile phones.
Fraudsters who run this new mobile phishing scam send out SMS […]

Yesterday, Washington Post reported almost 2000 executives falling for a phishing fraud that was perpetrated on them by serving a subpoena via email. The subpoena e mail summoned them to court supposedly for a hearing on a case related to the company they were working for.
The 20,000 original recipients of the email were directed to […]