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FTC offers $50,000 prize to stop illegal robocalls

FTC offers $50,000 prize to stop illegal robocalls
  • Posted October 19, 2012, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • The Federal Trade Commission is calling upon the private sector to solve a modern-day plight: reliably detecting and eliminating robocalls to both landlines and cell phones. The FTC is offering a cool $50,000 prize to the person or company who…

Regulators crack down on telemarketing scareware scammers

Regulators crack down on telemarketing scareware scammers
  • Posted October 4, 2012, 3:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in IT Security, The Web With Video
  • Regulators from five countries including the US FTC have announced a crackdown on six scareware operations that imitated tech support agents to trick unwitting users into paying for the removal of fake malware. The scammers were mostly based in India and targeted...

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