Scams

Six Nigerian men have gone on trial today in London for an alleged phishing scam where job offers at London’s exclusive Harrods department store were used as “bait”.

Twitter has been hit by a wave of spam promising “pure garcinia cambogia” - a vegetable extract used in weight loss supplements. High-profile accounts such as Jane Fonda's fell victim, with attackers compromising Hootsuite accounts to gain entry.

A new study aims to identify the sort of people who are most likely to fall for phishing scams - and has found that women, introverts and the overconfident are more likely to confuse “real” email with phishing scams.

Many industries are now being targeted by well-tailored spear-phishing scams, the FBI has warned, with emails containing accurate information about victims, harvested from social networks or from previous intrusions into the same network.

Atlantic Media CTO Tom Cochran emailed employees a fake phishing email supposedly from “Google Apps”, and found that 58% clicked the link.

Instagram users were bombarded with pictures of fruit over the weekend in a spam attack that swept the photo-sharing network.

A telemarketing company has been hit with a $7.5m fine for repeatedly contacting people on the Do Not Call Registry - the largest civil penalty ever issued in a Do Not Call case.