Through unsolicited e-mails, spammers are making huge money during the fundraising and charity efforts on helping flood victims of Queensland as revealed by Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), a communication watchdog of Australia as reported by computerworld on January 19, 2011

In a report by Symantec, "Attack Toolkits and Malicious Websites", nearly two-thirds of web-based crime last year was resultant due to botnets and exploit code that were built by reputed attack toolkits. Underground economy was functionalized for trading these toolkits, as published in the news by networld on January 18, 2011.

Researchers from CA a security company caution users of Facebook that a scareware scam is presently attacking them i.e. delivering fake anti-virus software through spam mails.

The New Zealand Law Society has cautioned lawyers for remaining vigilant of an e-mail scam, which apparently aims at misleading them, online. Reportedly, the first time the scam e-mail came in security experts' notice within New Zealand (NZ) was during mid-2010.