Shoppers and retailers aren’t the only ones gearing up for the holidays. Criminals are out in full force with plenty of scams to separate you and your money

Originally posted at Safe and Secure

By Larry Magid

Small and medium-size businesses, governments, and school districts are targets of online bank fraud involving malicious e-mails, key loggers, and money mules, FBI says.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

By Elinor Mills

Twitter and Facebook users were getting hit with scams on Monday.

Twitter users warned about direct messages that said, “I make money online with Google. I learned how here [link],” according to Twitter users.

A Twitter representative said it was not a phishing scam because the site to which the spam links does not ask for a user name and password, or look like a Twitter page.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

By Elinor Mills