Monday, January 16, 2012

Phishing Scams Identity Theft - Mon Jan 16, 2012


Hackers impersonate Facebook security in chat phishing scam
ComputerworldUK
By Lucian Constantin | IDG News Service | Published 15:43, 16 January 12 Hackers are impersonating the Facebook security team using hijacked accounts in a new phishing attack spreading through the social network. The attackers replace the profile ...
Kiwis duped into sending funds in online 'mystery shopper' rip-off
New Zealand Herald
Victims were "employed" and thousands of dollars - actually stolen through an earlier phishing scam - were deposited into their bank accounts. They were then told to evaluate the service of Western Union by transferring most of the money out of the ...
Bank Text Scams Back For Second Weekend
NewsTalk 1010 WCSI
The 'Indiana Bank and Trust” phishing scam returned to Bartholomew County over the weekend. You may remember that a week earlier, many in our area received text messages supposedly from IBT, requesting them to call an out of state phone number to ...
Google Docs hosted phishing schemes abound
Help Net Security
As the security firm's Paul Ducklin has noted, the phishers are partial to using Google Docs for a variety of reasons: the Google domain gives the scam an aura of legitimacy and the HTTPS in the URL gives it an aura of security; the phishing forms are ...

Microsoft insists there's 'no loophole in Xbox security'
Computerandvideogames.com
In a statement issued to Metro, the platform holder said online fraud and identity theft are industry-wide problems, and that illegal access to Xbox Livers accounts is due to phishing scams, brute force hacking, and other common illicit methods. ...
Identity Theft Protection – What You Should Know
Patch.com
The biggest way that people are affected by identity theft is through phishing scams. No, that's not a typographical error. Phishing is the process of scamming unsuspecting internet surfers and consumers into offering up their sensitive financial or ...



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