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With the federal government having shut down Megaupload on charges of copyright infringement, scammers betting on the gullibility of former Megaupload users are trying to make a sleazy payday. According to TorrentFreak, users of Megaupload have received letters from a non-existent German law...

By The Associated Press, cbc.ca, Updated: March 17, 2012 11:07 PM A California man has been convicted in a scheme in which hundreds of Canadians filed fraudulent tax refund claims in the United States. Ronald L. Brekke was found guilty this week of conspiracy and wire fraud after helping...

A U.S. judge sentenced a New Zealand national to prison for her role in a baby trafficking ring that peddled the unborn children of surrogate mothers. Carla Chambers, 52, was convicted in San Diego federal court of recruiting surrogate moms in the United States and then selling the parental...

I am pondering with regards to the read and write data transfer speeds of SSDs... Which one is best, should I purchase an ssd such as: Crucial 128GB Real SSD C400 having: Read speed of: 355MB/sec Write speed of: 140MB/sec or OCZ vertex 2 120gb which has: Read speed of: 285MB/sec Write...

Research out of the UK today says that perhaps as many as 200,00 people have been victims of online romance scams and the same study says over 1 million people personally know someone who has been scammed by one of these heartless fraudsters. More...

Hackers have found a new hook to trick people into opening malicious attachments: send emails that purport to come from office printers, many of which now have the ability to email scanned documents. More...

Microsoft has opened a front in its ongoing battle against Internet scammers, using the power of a U.S. court to deal a knockout blow to an emerging botnet and taking offline a provider of free Internet domains. More...

Hackers have found a new hook to trick people into opening malicious attachments: send emails that purport to come from office printers, many of which now have the ability to email scanned documents. More...

Microsoft has opened a front in its ongoing battle against Internet scammers, using the power of a U.S. court to deal a knockout blow to an emerging botnet and taking offline a provider of free Internet domains. More...

You may now be savvy enough to know that when a friend reaches out on Facebook and says they've been mugged in London and are in desperate need of cash, that it's a scam. But social engineers, the criminals that pull off these kinds of ploys by trying to trick you, are one step ahead. More...

As Hurricane Irene barrels toward the eastern seaboard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning government agencies and private companies to be on the lookout for storm-related phishing attacks and other malicious cyberactivity. More...

Ukraine's security service SBU said Monday it had arrested four people for allegedly creating fake payment cards with stolen information in an operation estimated to have caused US$20 million in damages. More...

C/P FROM ANOTHER SITE Rumours of Satscams taking over Ilink and Satzen Guys I have been reading posts C/P actually of Ilink and Satzen Server being taken over by Satscams So far only Ilink and Satzen uers are finding these Messages merely by connecting their receiver. Now we...

A California man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison Thursday for his role as the brains behind a widespread phishing scam that took in more than 38,000 victims. More...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica's police force rejects a statement made by a senior police commander portraying homosexuals as the primary organizers of lottery scams, the Caribbean's island's top cop said Thursday. Commissioner Owen Ellington expressed regret "for any concern, anxiety and any...

Microsoft on Saturday disabled the search tool on its Safety & Security Center after attackers poisoned results with links to pornographic URLs. More...

Worms, denial-of-service attacks and spam just aren't paying out like they used to. That's what Cisco Systems found when it took a close look at the illegal marketplace for scammers and spammers. More...

Hello all i am new here and was recently looking for a new fta site to get my files from...so i started to look around and do some research to see who was the best at meeting these needs... After about 6 hrs of cruzing thru the google pages i figured i had read enough.... Now im open to both...

Police said they caught a man driving in the HOV lane in Oakville Wednesday with a blow-up doll in the passenger seat. Ontario Provincial Police said a driver phoned police to say it looked like the car didn't qualify to be in the high-occupancy lane. Burlington OPP Constable Graham Williamson...

Fraud charges have been laid against a B.C. man who police say masqueraded as a cancer patient and defrauded people of almost $1 million for his treatment. Douglas Archie Clark, of Burnaby, is facing 13 counts of fraud. The RCMP allege Clark, 64, portrayed himself as a member of the Canadian...