Friday, May 11, 2012

Phishing Scams Identity Theft - Fri May 11, 2012


Latest phishing scam looks as if it's from Amazon.com
WDRB
(WDRB) -- The Better Business Bureau is warning online shoppers to beware of a phishing scamthat looks like an order cancellation notice from Amazon.com. The BBB suggests double-checking suspicious emails that look as if they're supposed to be from ...
eBay Admits Error in Bungled Phishing Report
Auctionbytes
By Ina Steiner eBay tried to shut down a post on the EcommerceBytes Blog on Thursday after mistakenly identifying the page as part of a phishing scam. Ironically the page had been publicly available for 40 days before eBay reported it.

Scam Artists Take The Art Of Scamming To A New Level
CBS Local
Some of the most active ways ID thieves are trying to scam your identity are coming through as text messages from your phones, iPads or other digital devices. It's called “smishing,” after the text's SMS service capabilities and the older “phishing” ...

Training workers to be cyber safe
Network World
An article posted to Barracuda Labs Internet Security Blog warns that scammers are now tailoring their phishing messages to prey on people who commonly use their Facebook, Google or Yahoo accounts to login to other websites via OpenID.


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