Phishing Scams Identity Theft News - Sat Dec 17, 2011

Beware of PSN Wallet Phishing Emails PlayStation LifeStyle The latest issue comes in the form of a phishing scam being sent to PSN user's email addresses. The scam appears as an email stating you have funds in your wallet that haven't been used in months. Upon logging in, your credentials are then stolen. ...

Why do we still fall for phishing scams? ZDNet (blog) The recent arrest of six men in connection to a student phishing scam worth £1 million is just another example of the rise in global cyber-crime. The scam involved sending emails to students containing fake student finance pages in order to lure them...

King County, PSE Issue Email Scam Warnings Patch.com While the fraudulent emails closely copy the appearance of email from the legitimate agencies, they are not. Puget Sound Energy said that the fake email is part of a nationwide phishing scam that sends emails claiming to be from several well-recognized ...

ARRL Warns Members to be Aware of Email Scams: eHam.net Many ARRL members with arrl.net e-mail accounts have recently received bogus e-mails in a "phishing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing" attack. These are scams designed to scare people into e-mailing back personal information -- such as user names ...

Falcon swoops on cyber crims The Age The older-style credit card scams of ''skimming'' and ''phishing'' continue, experts say, but are not growing at the same rate. Phishing is where criminals send out emails purporting to be from banks, couriers, telcos or stores in the hope that ...

IRS and Alabama Securities Commission Warn of Common Scams Insurance News Net (press release) [Hundreds of millions of dollars have been lost by US citizens in penny stock, micro cap and related pump and dump scams and Alabamians have lost millions of dollars.] 6. Phishing scams. Protect your personal information and your money! ...

Morgan scam victim offers cautionary tale Jacksonville Journal-Courier Ware said even children are targeted by being encouraged to download free music tracks or other software that can contain phishing programs. Downloading unknown attachments from suspiciousemails can cause the same problems. ...

BBB warns against holiday shopping scams TucsonSentinel.com Phishing emails are a common way for hackers to get at your personal information or break into your computer. Around the holidays, beware of e-cards and messages pretending to be from companies like UPS or Fedex with links to package tracking...

PSE issues warning on phishing email South Whidbey Record PSE officials said the email is part of a nationwide "phishing" scam and may contain a computer virus. The email resembles the notice the company sends to its online customers, and uses the PSE logo and includes links to the utility's website. ...

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