HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs) has urged advisors to caution emigrant consumers for keeping vigil about getting victimized with phishing e-mails that scammers are distributing prior to January 31, 2012 by when all taxpayers must submit their self-assessment statement, published IFAonline.co.uk on January 16, 2012.

The e-mail that poses as sent from the U.S' Seattle DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) as also asserts that one traffic ticket has been provided for the recipient is another fraud. For, a web-link within the e-mail produces an Internet site, which harbors malware, published Hoax Slayer dated January 20, 2012.

Panda Labs the security company said that its researchers had detected one more series of ransomware assaults, which pretended to be formal alerts that agencies of law enforcement issued, admonishing end-users that they required paying a fine if they wanted their systems to be freed from captivity.

The sinister method through which online crooks dispatched e-mails posing as originating out of an office premises' scanner has yet again revived, attacking company employees' e-mail accounts, reported softpedia on January 19, 2012.