Leave it to phone scammers to innovate new ways to be as annoying — and scummy — as humanly possible. These cybercriminals are no longer content with just sending you the odd phishing text or two. As Wired reports, more and more of them are using so-called “SMS blasters” that basically act as a portable cell tower, tricking your phones …
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Texas teen uses computer science to fight scammers
Plano, Texas — In many ways, Tejasvi Manoj of Plano, Texas, is an average 17-year-old. “You’ve got to balance, like, all of your classes, and then you have college applications as well,” Manoj told CBS News. But she’s spending much of her senior year of high school with a different type of senior, visiting older adult community centers, where she …
Read More »Scammers Are Targeting Facebook Users With This Phishing Scheme
Scammers are relentless in their pursuit of your personal information, from login credentials to credit card numbers, and one of the latest schemes targets Facebook users (again), this time in an attempt to open an ongoing line of communication that they can exploit over time. Malwarebytes Labs has identified a login phishing scam nearly identical to the one I recently …
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