Phishing Scams Identity Theft - Wed Mar 14, 2012

Online scammers continue to plague Vancouver Island region Canada.com The Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island sent out a warning Tuesday about the threat posed by online phishing scams, saying they continue to plague the region. Phishing scams are those that use the names and identities of reputable businesses to ...

SingTel warns users of latest phishing scam Straits Times SingTel has warned its users that emails from 'SingNet', asking users to provide their password within five days or risk having their accounts shut down, are part of an illegal phishing scam. -- PHOTO: REUTERS The e-mail from 'SingNet' asks users to ...

SingTel warns customers about phishing scam TODAYonline SingTel has warned its customers not to respond to emails asking for their personal information and passwords, as these are part of a phishing scam. On its Facebook page yesterday, it said some SingNet users have been receiving emails from "SINGNET" ...

How to Spot Tax Season Scams MainStreet We see phishing scams throughout the year: Scammers will send emails posing as a bank or retailer with which you do business and asking you to hand over such data as passwords and credit card numbers. Similar schemes are perpetrated during tax season, ...

'Phishing' season open all year round in Durham durhamregion.com March is Fraud Prevention Month in Canada and law enforcement officials here at home want Durham Region residents to focus on the criminal phenomenon known as 'phishing' in which scam artists use the Internet, social media and e-mail accounts to fool ...

Beware: Top 10 scams Independent Online Without the account holder's banking details and passwords, the fraud would simply not be possible. Don't go there, ever. SA has one of the highest cellphone penetration rates in the world, so it's a wide open field for the SMS version of phishing.

Consumers warned about travel scams before upcoming vacation season CBS 21 In reality, these listings are a type of “phishing” scheme, used by identity thieves to steal personal information. Get the details about the transaction in writing, preferable in the form of a contract, including the property information, ...

Beware of Canada Revenue Agency scams Northumberland Today They are "phishing" scams that contain special coding or downloadable forms that are designed to steal your personal or financial information. Phishing is an e-mail scam to steal personal or financial information using official-looking e-mails that ..

Officals Warn Taxpayers of Scams as IRS Deadline Looms 33 KDAF-TV Kopko says phasing emails that look like they're from IRS itself are common. They're used to collect your personal info. “Besides the phishing emails, they might prepare your return for you, like you hire them to do it, they steal some personal ...

Alleged Chinese Facebook con dupes NATO officers Defense Systems The Telegraph also cited unidentified sources saying NATO officials have been told the attacks were traced to "state-sponsored individuals in China." A spear-phishing scam via Facebook would be a relatively new twist on the practice of spear-phishing ...

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