Tag Archives: Scammers

Security experts have warned that web domains are being bought up by scammers to host fake articles and other spurious content. 

A blog post from Netcraft, a UK company specializing in tackling cybercrime, has flagged how it has seen a surge in “health product campaigns that exploit cheap top-level domains (TLDs), reaching up to 60% of a TLD’s daily domain registrations.”

A lawsuit seeking to shut down a website using an attorney’s identity to perpetrate a timeshare scheme is the latest example of how lawyers are targeted in fraud scams.

A group of unidentified scammers are allegedly using the personal information of retired Maryland attorney George E. Johnson to defraud property owners looking to sell their timeshare in Cancún, Mexico, according to a lawsuit filed Sunday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.