Le Centre antifraude du Canada a publié un nouveau bulletin sur la fraude. Pour le mois de la sensibilisation à la cybersécurité, ils mettent en évidence les escroqueries malheureusement trop fréquentes sur Internet: Stratagèmes de rencontre Fraudes électroniques Fraudes par facturation continue Hameçonnage Biens contrefaits, et Options binaires (arnaque d’investissement) Lisez les Bulletins du CAFC …
Presented at GoSec 2017 Jessica is an intelligence researcher/analyst with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). She has been with the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) since 1998 and joined the Operational Support Unit in 2006. Jessica has previously been involved in most aspects of the CAFC disruption program. Along with providing tactical support to law …
The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has released its latest bulletin on the subject of Text Messaging Scams, sometimes referred to as SMSishing. Find the English and French versions of the bulletin at the link below. 2017-09-15_Text_Messages_EN 2017-09-15_Text_Messages_FR “Text messaging scams occur when scammers use deceptive text messages to lure consumers into providing personal or financial …
Jonathon Lusthaus and Federico Varese provide more insight into the phenomena of online crime groups. To provide more of an understanding of the offline nature of online groups they took two field trips to Romania to investigate the region around Râmnicu Vâlcea, a local known for cybercrime. The Region of Ca Piteşti, which contains this …
Timothy Rich at Western Kentucky University was interested to see if appeals in Advanced Fee Fraud emails for the recipient to trust them were effective at all. To do this he surveyed a large number of advanced fee fraud type emails to develop models of standard email text. These texts were then modified to include …
Consumer fraud costs Australians $1.4b every year with the advances in technology allowing the victimization of an increasing number of people. Penny Joyna from the Australian Institute of Criminology looks into the relationship between Age and the risk of consumer fraud. Age has long been seen as a factor in the risk of becoming a …