Friday, May 4, 2012

Phishing Scams Identity Theft - Fri May 4, 2012


BBB warns: Phishing thieves becoming bolder
News Sentinel
Phishing scams are a national epidemic, victimizing hundreds of thousands of consumers each year. These unknown frauds, often disguising themselves as well-known businesses or government agencies – are stealing tens of millions of dollars from ...
Retail Texting Scam Hits the Heartland
WOWT
A dead giveaway that it is a phishing scam is the fact that I never shop there. I think all they do is make up numbers with area code and prefix, then randomly pick numbers for the last 4 digits and send them out, hoping at least some will go through.
Watch Out For This World Of Warcraft Phishing Scam
Kotaku Australia
When Gizmodo's Alex Kidman asked if I had seen 'this World of Warcraft 'fishing' thing', I was so confused, but then I had a look at the email he had just been sent and it made perfect sense. Just a heads up — if you've been sent an email with the ...
Authorities say tax fraud schemes on the rise
Sun-Sentinel
The IRS also cited phishing, a practice in which scammers use unsolicited email or fake websites to deceive victims into revealing financial and personal information, as one of its Dirty Dozen Scams. For more information on identity theft involving tax ...
Web tools can slay malware
Columbia Daily Tribune
As the name implies, these are unsolicited emails designed to hook you with a promise or false warnings and then reel you in with financial scams to steal account numbers, logins, passwords and, ultimately, your online identity. Phishing emails ...
Internet scams to watch out for in online banking
Phnom Penh Post
Phishing is a criminal attempt, usually through the internet or telephone, to fraudulently acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, personal identification numbers and bank account and credit card numbers by impersonating a ...
PayPal spam leads to exploit kit
Virus Bulletin
It may seem surprising that the criminals chose to send the user to an exploit kit, rather than to a phishing site. However, as many users are aware of phishing scams, even if they had clicked the link in the email, the domain name would be an obvious ...


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