Phishing Scams Identity Theft - Wed Mar 28, 2012

Phishing scams: you are giving yourself away Independent Online In the case of internet fraud, fraudsters send out what are referred to as “phishing” e-mails, purporting to come from their bank, and asking for the recipient to click on a link, embedded in the e-mail, in order to update their security settings or ...

The scams just keep rolling in - Microsoft, Discover, Wal-Mart, Craigslist spoofed Allentown Morning Call (blog) The Better Business Bureau and Wal-Mart say this is a classic phishing scam. Delete the text message if you get it. Finally, federal authorities in Philadelphia announced last week they'd indicted a Nigerian man for wire fraud in connection with sales ...

Visa and MasterCard Phishing Scam Newstalk 1010 Toronto police would like to make the public aware of a "phishing scam" that is targeting credit card holders. "Phishing" is a technique used to trick people in providing personal, financial or password information by getting consumers to believe the ...

Japanese Mobile Phone Software Detects Scammers Weird Asia News (press release) This software runs on a mobile phone and so far has achieved a 90% success rate at detecting phishing and other similar phone scams. The situation is called “overtrust,” occurring when one individual, as judged by voice pitch and volume, ...

FBI warns of Internet scams, new and old with a new twist Your Houston News A 2007 botnet is believed to be behind the spike in these attacks. Traditionally, HTML-based attachments were used for phishing attacks to entice HTML victim to the desired spoofed web page. This current attack vector uses the HTML attachment with ...

Tech Q&A: Getting email warnings from a good demon The Republic Your Yahoo email account has most likely been taken over by someone who's sending emails to your contacts. The typical purpose of that is to perpetrate a scam by sending spam, or junk email, or phishing attempts, which try to trick people into ...

Italy's Post Office Customers Victimized with Fake Mails SPAMfighter News A phishing scam that has been targeting Italians in the history tries to trick internet users into handling over personal information, warns bit defender online at softpedia on March 20, 2012. The scam e-mail opens up in a jovial mood, ...

Harnessing The Power Of Email: 3 Strategies For Financial Marketers The Financial Brand All the familiar concerns — spam filters, privacy laws, phishing scams, etc. — can be tackled. Email is simply too powerful and too effective to ignore. Email has emerged as one of the most powerful tools in the financial marketer's arsenal, ...

New Scam Targets Your Cell Phone 93.1 WIBC Indianapolis (WIBC.com photo: Reed Parker) You've likely heard of "phishing" but now a new scam targets your cell phone and it's called "smishing". It happens when you get a text message stating you've won something or asking you to click a link to take a survey,... s

OIT warns of malicious emails sent to students and faculty members in scam The Daily Princetonian Once the owners of the Brazilian phishing site obtained the netIDs and passwords, they could then impersonate the email account and send messages. Director of OIT Support Services Steven Sather noted that this possibility was particularly dangerous for ...

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