Phishing Scams Identity Theft - Sun Feb 5, 2012

Phish of the day: Beware tax-season email scams ConsumerSearch Productopia (blog) Scammers go into overtime around the holidays and into tax season, aiming to trick you into forking over personal information. These email sneak-attacks are called "phishing" and it's nothing new. What is new this year is that a lot of the bogus emails ...

Avoiding scams should be on your list during tax season South Bend Tribune The goal of most tax scams is to either trick people out of their money or steal their identities. The IRS has identified several methods scammers use to accomplish this. Phishing is a tactic used by Internet-based thieves to trick unsuspecting victims ...

BBB unveils the top 10 scams of 2011 Arizona Republic Job scam: A host of online job sites offer hope to the unemployed. But many e-mails, websites and online applications are actually phishing scams that seek to steal your identity. Some of these companies even conduct interviews.

Use financial management tool 'at your own risk' Independent Online Its concerns were about 22seven's capacity to protect clients from phishing attacks. Christo Vrey, the head of digital banking services at Absa, says that submitting sensitive personal details to a third party posed “a fundamental risk to customers' ...

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