Halifax Regional Police has issued a scam advisory warning citizens about a scam involving the social networking app WeChat. The police said that its Financial Crime Unit of the Integrated Criminal Investigation…
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Microsoft sues Omni Tech for scamming consumers in its name
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a Los Angeles company for allegedly using Redmond’s name to scam customers into spending hundreds of dollars in support services to get nonexistent bugs fixed and…
Top 5 Facebook scams that could get you even if you are vigilant
A new research has revealed that Facebook users are still falling for age-old tricks employed by scammers. The research also claims that even well-educated folks are falling for such scams because of…
Facebook colour changer app is nothing but a scam
More than 10,000 users already affected by the ‘Facebook colour changer,’ which is one of the oldest Facebook scams.
Riot Games disables League of Legends public chat rooms; mulls better, cleaner version
Chat rooms “rife with RP sellers, scammers and Elo-boost spam” have been disabled indefinitely.
‘Microsoft computer scam’ man sentenced
Mohammed Khalid Jamil, 34, from Luton, the man behind a successful Microsoft computer scam, was handed a four-month suspended sentence. Specialist e-crime investigators from National Trading Standards Team along with police fraud…
Elaborate Netflix scam targeting users through fake Microsoft tech support
A security researcher has uncovered an elaborate scam trying to skim money from gullible Netflix users by first displaying error messages on their computer and then routing them to fake Microsoft tech…