Phishing Scams Identity Theft - Wed Mar 21, 2012

Smishing, vishing, phishing -- scammers are after you by phone: Plain Dealing Plain Dealer Smishing scams may borrow the names of any well-known institution – a big retailer, your bank, a government agency. The name of the scam is a mash-up of SMS, the short message system technology used for text messages, and phishing.

Sheriff's office warns of electronic phishing scam Seaside Signal Under the scam, the suspects send an email or text message purporting to be Verizon representatives and advising the message recipient that his or her Verizon account has been locked. The message asks the recipient to visit the link embedded in the ...

Students are Warned for Phishing E-mails by University of Delaware SPAMfighter News The university of Delaware (UD)(US), is cautioning its students of a new phishing emails is presently socializing in the internet and seems to be from the university's information technologies department, reported newsworks.org on march 12, 2012.

Japanese develop mobile phone with built-in scamming detection ExtremeTech The software, which runs locally on your mobile phone, has a 90% success rate at detecting remittance phishing (think Nigerian or fake anti-virus) and other similar scams. To achieve such accuracy, the researchers attacked the problem from two angles.

Phone scammer or trustworthy solicitor? Software calls it CNET By combining this technology with keywords such as "indebtedness" or "compensation" that are characteristic to a specific type of remittance-soliciting phone-phishing scam called furikomesagi, the researchers have developed a setup now being tested in ...

Saco-based bank warns of texting scam KeepMEcurrent.com "This is a perfect example of what is referred to as a 'Phishing' scam,” Savage said. "People should never respond to these types of requests as bank customers would never be asked to provide personal information by phone or over the Internet.

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