Even with measures in place, spam calls have become an almost daily part of our lives in South Africa.
Criminals are capitalising on SARS’ efforts to crack down on tax non-compliance by sending out scam emails and messages.
If you’ve stopped answering ‘unknown numbers’, you aren’t alone. The robocall epidemic is changing the way we interact with our phones.
Over the last few months, owners Facebook have been working on some massive changes to the popular messaging app.
If you ever suspect something fishy is going on with deals that seem too good to be true, rather don’t click on the link. Otherwise, this could be you.
You can learn plenty from smashing TED Talks to the face, but every now and again they can crack you up, too. This comedian’s long con is quite brilliant.
I’m pretty over being spammed on my phone these days, and like most problems there’s now an app for that. Take that, spammers.
Italian researchers, who made us aware of the fake Twitter follower business a few months ago, have revealed that Facebook Page spamming has become a R2 billion business. Yes, R2 billion. The researchers spent two days scouring underground spam forums, yes they exist. They found 30,000 Facebook Pages on the forum, and checked for words like “click here,” “wow,” “free,” and “join,” followed by links.
Thanks for nothing, cyber criminals. There goes our chance to pirate enough content to make it through Easter. Internet users around the globe have been subjected to slower internet speeds over the past week due to a global cyberattack. That was not a line from a Tom Clancy novel. This particular cyberattack is the biggest […]
How many hours has it been since you were on the receiving end of an unsolicited spam SMS, or spam email? Did you know that South Africa has a national opt-out registry for that kind of thing? That’s true. You add your name to the national opt-out registry, and direct marketers (who are largely responsible for the spam SMS you got just a minute ago) aren’t allowed to contact you. The question is, who’s going to manage the list?
I’ve had it up to here with bastard companies sending me text messages about crap I don’t want, have never wanted and will never want. I don’t know what has happened, but suddenly every company in the country has my number. Thankfully I can now go to the Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association’s (Waspa) website and sort this shit out.