Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:48:55 -0700

Sponsored links led to pages designed to extract personal data Companies that deal in shady free gift card offers have managed to game Google's sponsored search results so they can pass themselves off as representing the official sites of such huge brands as Walmart, Best Buy, McDonald's and Hooters, among others, PCWorld has found.

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:05:27 -0700

There are still loose ends which we need to tie up about the call centres that try to con people out of money for doing 'PC repairs' against 'malware' that you've 'downloaded' The response to our stories about people being scammed by cold calls from Indian call centres has been remarkable. (A quick reminder: people get cold-called and told there's a "problem with your computer" and talked into ...

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:24:47 -0700

So-called "crash-for-cash" scams and a wave of unseen car insurance fraud is fuelling a record rise in premiums for honest motorists, the AA has warned.