In their investigation, ESET's team observed the worm creating
bogus accounts on sites such as Instagram, and automatically following users.
The Russian nationals and their co-conspirators allegedly stole social security numbers, home addresses, and other information from U.S. citizens to create
bogus accounts on PayPal (pypl) as well as unspecified online crytopcurrency exchanges, the indictment said.
Not exact matches
The Senate Banking Committee assailed Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf for pushing employees to create as many as 2 million
bogus bank and credit card
accounts without customer consent — making customers pay overdraft and late fees
on accounts they never knew they had.
At issue is whether such terms are binding
on customers for
bogus accounts.
Wells Fargo, the banking giant that's reeling from disclosures it secretly opened millions of
bogus customer
accounts, recently said there was more bad news
on the way.
Trump has enjoyed wide support from white supremacist groups
on account of his hateful rhetoric regarding Muslims and immigrants, and the Republican frontrunner has shared
bogus crime statistics from white nationalist Web sites to oppose the #BlackLivesMatter movement and stir up fear of black people.
Therefore his claims that «Islamic Law» dictates that Obama be considered a muslim
on account of his father is an absurd remark that betrays his
bogus pretensions to knowledge of Islam.
I am trying an experiment to not tweet as much and haven't even noticed a difference
on sales... Most of the
accounts are fake now and unless you take the time to click
on the website address
on the profile... you will just have a bunch of
bogus followers.
Someone stole your identity An unnoticed fraudulent
account on your credit report can also make you look like a bigger credit risk than you are, particularly if the
bogus credit line is maxed out, unpaid or there are a number of them.
Fergemann said that cybersquatters and name - squatters — those who squat
on the trademark rights of others — are a rapidly growing problem
on the Internet, where people are setting up
bogus accounts under company names or celebrities» names
They also rely
on social media to communicate with journalists about lawsuits, to align with activist groups for support, and utilize
bogus accounts to market their lawsuits.
This doesn't solve the problem of
bogus and duplicate
accounts (Facebook last estimated 8.7 percent of
accounts are fake), but it's still an important distinction to make, since
on the Internet, millions of users sign up and never come back.
In addition to creating the
bogus accounts, which were designed to spread misinformation and influence US voters, Facebook said the Kremlin - linked Internet Research Agency spent $ 100,000
on over 3000 ads displayed around the time of the election.