People, who desire to donate for people stranded in Burma since the enormous cyclone storm, Nargis, are being asked to remain vigilant of e-mails that could direct them to deceitful Websites, as reported by TIMESONLINE on May 11, 2008.

IT security department of UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and UCLA's Webmail, Bruin OnLine, have warned that phishing e-mails were being constantly sent to UCLA account holders seeking the users' private login details, as reported by DAILY BRUIN on May 14, 2008.

Hawaii National Bank issued a warning on May 16, 2008 asking its customers to look out for an Internet e-mail scam that seeks users' private information. The Honolulu-based bank is the most recent financial institution that has given warning to its customers about a phishing scam. Besides, the bank said that it never sends an e-mail requesting for passwords, account numbers, or Social Security numbers.

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As per security experts, social networking sites have emerged as the latest front in the war against spam.

An anti-spam enterprise, Cloudmark, said that in the 6 months leading till March 2008, social networking Websites experienced a tremendous increase in the number of spam on their networks. Cloudmark also claimed that, at many leading social networking sites, almost 30% of new accounts designed are fake accounts or zombie accounts created for deceiving the users and for other harmful purposes.

IT security department of UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and UCLA's Webmail, Bruin OnLine, have warned that phishing e-mails were being constantly sent to UCLA account holders seeking the users' private login details, as reported by DAILY BRUIN on May 14, 2008.

MU's (University of Missouri) division of IT has alerted its users of Webmail accounts about a phishing mail, which asks the users for their private information, as reported by MISSOURIAN on May 6, 2008.

As per an online survey conducted by Singapore headquartered software product company, ReadiMinds, it has been found that around 30% of leading Indian banks fell prey to identity theft in 2007.

The survey also discovered that in 2008 an online security has been the major concern for the Indian Banks. The study was named as State of online security in financial institutions in India 2008, and was conducted in April 2008. Further, it took into consideration India's leading 40 banks.

As per Symantec, hishing scam is rising high. The company's report, "State of Spam May 2008", analyzes the growth of spam in April 2008 and said that around 80% of the total mails in April 2008 were reported to be spam.

A US District Court judge has ordered the executors of porn-related Websites to halt an e-mail campaign they were running after the US Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice complained that the messages violated an US anti-spam law, the FTC revealed it on May 6, 2008.

The IRS claimed that some phishing mails are sent from the addresses of IRS.GOV and are pretending to be collaborators of the government, as reported by my FOX ON May 5, 2008,

Spammers have pounded on soaring prices of petrol by offering fake fuel discounts to the US residents.

According to security researchers, the new spam redirects the recipient via a link to a 70% discount offer on every gallon of the liquid fuel, as reported by SCMagazine on May 13, 2008.

Oswego police reports that two local residents recently filed a complaint that they got fraud e-mails that seemed to arrive from an offshore country, as reported by Suburbanchicagonews on May 9, 2008.

The INSERT (Information Security Research Team) reports that Gmail is vulnerable to receive man-in-the-middle attack with which spammers could send mass e-mails through Google's SMTP service, while simultaneously evade detection, as reported by Arstechnica on May 10, 2008.

As per the security company, SecureData Security, in 2008 cases of Internet fraud could rise as worldwide hackers grab the opportunities; the Internet is providing them, to gain monetary values with a comparatively low risk factor in getting caught.