Dean Davis, Commissioner of High Springs City (Florida, US), recently got an e-mail that requested for financial assistance. The sender seemingly was a High Springs inhabitant named 'Sue Shell' who worked at ACE Hardware in the city.

Zimbabwe's Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister, Moses Mzila Ndlovu, a member of MDC-M (Movement for Democratic Change -- Mutambara, a Zimbabwean political party), has been recently (third week of July, 2010) victimized by the 411 scammers. These 411 scams are also known 'Advance-fee fraud' or '419'. These scams are very complex and it is believed that they are run by the Nigerians.

The recent attack vectors being used by the cyber criminals to spread rouge antivirus malware to the user's computers are e-mail messages concealed as scanned documents, as reported by The Tech Herald on July 18, 2010.

Sucuri, an eminent name in providing Web integrity and monitoring solutions, has issued a warning of a new series of malware code injection attacks targeting obsolete WordPress websites, as reported by SOFTPEDIA on July 17, 2010.