Saturday, January 7, 2012

Phishing Scams Identity Theft - Sat Jan 7, 2012


City of Portland hit by email phishing scam
The Tennessean
The City of Portland was the recent victim of a nationwide email phishing scam that netted thieves $174930 in taxpayer money from the city's water and sewer accounts. Scammers, posing as the Better Business Bureau, are sending emails to businesses and ...
BBB lists top 10 scams
Salisbury Post
Phishing scams – Phishing scams disguised as emails from a variety of 'authorities' such as banks or the IRS, tricked millions of people into clicking on links and downloading attachments that infected their computers with viruses to steal their ...
Scam doing rounds
The Gympie Times
"The message is a phishing scam designed to trick Telstra account holders into supplying personal and financial information to internet-based criminals," the warning read. This is just one of many scams doing the rounds. Before you act on what could be ...
Watch for misrepresentation in 2012
North Shore News
The organization is publicizing a list of scams to watch for in 2012 showing how scammers use misrepresentation to gain trust. Brand spoofing (aka phishing) is a general term for email, text messages and websites fabricated and sent by criminals and ...
Scammers out in force to start year
Victoria Times Colonist
Brand Spoofing, or Phishing - Email, text messages and websites fabricated and sent by criminals and designed to look like they come from well-known and trusted businesses to collect personal and financial information. 2. Advance Fee Loans - Consumers ...
YCSO Alerts about CableOne-Spoofed Phishing E-mails
SPAMfighter News
Worryingly, according to security researchers who examined the incident, it's because of the above kinds of phishing e-mail scams that there's been an increase in phishing online. Moreover, in support of their remark Kaspersky Labs' Spam Report for ...

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