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Phishing Scams Identity Theft - Sat Jul 21, 2012

Phishing Email Targets AICPA Members
Accounting Today
Print · Email · Reprints · Tweet. New York (July 20, 2012). By Michael
Cohn. A new phishing email scam appears to be aimed at members of the
American Institute of CPAs, particularly CPA tax practitioners.
<http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/phishing-email-targets-aicpa-members-63364-1.html>


Phishing websites reach all-time high
Computerworld
"People are tougher to fool with phishing, but they still can be in the
hands of a creative scam artisan." The U.S. hosted the most fake sites.
About half of the phishing sites for the first quarter of 2012 used some
form of a brand in their URL, which often tricks ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229398/Phishing_websites_reach_all_time_high>


Users Remain Mostly Oblivious to Spear Phishing
Threatpost (blog)
Another sizeable chunk, 34 percent of those who responded, said they had
experienced a spear phishing attack believed the attack “resulted in the
compromise of user login credentials or unauthorized access to corporate IT
systems," according to the survey.
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/users-remain-mostly-oblivious-spear-phishing-071912>


Consumer AlertUtility Bailout A Fraud
Tucson Citizen
Consumer Alert: Utility Bailout A Fraud - Better Business Bureau Consumer
Alert. ... 15, 2012, under alert, Life, phishing, scam, Tips. Better
Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is warning consumers that con-artists
are using text messages, emails ...
<http://tucsoncitizen.com/bbbconsumeralert/2012/07/15/consumer-alert-utility-bailout-a-fraud/>

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