Phishing Scam Identity Theft News - Fri Dec 16, 2011

Student Loans Company warns of phishing attack Finance Markets The Student Loans Company is contacting customers who it believes may have had their personal details compromised as a result of a phishing attack. The email attack was designed to steal students' personal details and the company is advising students...

Phishing scam hits Canadian Revenue Agency CTV.ca The Canadian Revenue Agency is warning about a phishing scam targeting taxpayers online after a CTV viewer alerted Steele on Your Side to a suspicious email claiming to be from the government body. The email, with the subject line "Revenue Canada ...

'Ellen' Producer Says Fans Targeted In Facebook Scam (Exclusive) Hollywood Reporter An anonymous individual is said to be phishing personal info by pretending to be DeGeneres' manager Eric Gold. Pretty much everyone with an e-mail account is familiar with the type of scamwherein a person with connections has something valuable to ...

Spam Declined in 2011 as Criminals Shift to Targeted Attacks eWeek 27 over the previous day as malware and phishing attacks linked to the earthquake in New Zealand and a 28 percent spike on March 28 over the previous date as scammers linked to news about the Arab Spring uprisings. Social networking spam also became ...

Airline-ticketing fraud on the rise Ottawa Citizen The company attributes the surge in fraudulent tickets to online scams targeting travel agents. The scammers send travel agents "phishing" emails that appear to have been sent from global distribution systems, which provide travel agents the ability to ...

Beware scam gift card offers, sheriff warns Sun-Sentinel (blog) Lamberti said. “They're just phishing and are getting your information.” He said his agency has received complaints about this type of fraud. “You send the credit card number back in email and you don't get the gift card, and then you call us and say ...

Holiday scammers pose as Verizon and Amazon KOMO News Even Verizon says some of the spoofed sites, also known as phishing, are spot on copies of the company's actual website -- until you look closely. The contest date in the fine print at the bottom of the latest scam email expired more than a year ago! ...

Holiday scams abound; public warned to be cautious Ukiah Daily Journal The MCSO also warns consumers about several Internet shopping pitfalls and "phishing" scams, wherein scammers try to gain access to shoppers' personal information. Phony profiles on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter claim to be ...

SMS Fraud Is Not Unique to Android PCWorld Fraud is one of the oldest crimes in existence, and relies more on duping people than on circumventing technology. There are instances of SMS phishing scams that can trick people regardless of mobile platform. The victim receives a spam text message ...

Puget Sound Energy Warns of Fraudulent Emails MarketWatch (press release) The phony email, which has reached some PSE customers as well as people in other states who never have been a customer of the Washington state utility, is part of a nationwide phishing scamthat sends emails claiming to be from several well-recognized ...

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