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 [Tyneham wordpress.com weblog] Yahoo protects online fraudsters, locks out legal ethical experts: Between 2004 and 2006, the UK has seen an increase of 8,000% in fake Internet banking scams, mainly due to the growth in “phishing” emails that involves using fake websites to lure people into revealing their bank username, passwords, account names or numbers and PIN etc. Online fraud is a fact of life.

[Spam of the World] Advance-fee fraud: Such websites can imitate real sites such as eBay, PayPal or a banking site like Bank of America for the purposes of phishing, while others are totally fictional and used to lend credibility to a scammer’s story. Though phishing is only a secondary interest of most scam operations, as the object of the scammer is to deceive the victim into sending the money through legitimate means, the use of websites for advance fee fraud is common.

[Internet] New report identifies dangerous Web domains - CNN Money: NEW YORK (Associated Press) - When surfing the Internet for safe Web sites, not all domains are equal. Companies that assign addresses for Web sites appear to be cutting corners on security more when they assign names in certain domains than in

[online schools] College Students Go Phishing More Than You’d Think: According to the Gartner Group, about 5% of US adults are successfully scammed by a phishing scheme, with “successful” being defined as ultimately releasing personal information to a bogus site or organization. Using a common scam, .

 [Global Issues Web News] Global Economic News: “If you are the victim of a phishing attack, the vast majority of people get their money back,” he says. “But if it happens seven times in seven weeks, then the bank is probably within its rights not to give you your money back.” .

[Alton Ceglinski] Phishing and spam continue to rise: Phishing and spam continue to rise IT Week - He added that attacks are also becoming more sophisticated, for example the criminals are now using man-in-the-middle attacks to circumvent the two-factor authentication methods now employed .

 [The fantastic site of Lord Matt] Watch out bloggers ISPs want to steal your income: You might think MySpace is a pit of phishing attacks now - wait untill the attackers realise that they can get hold of the accounts of 14 year old kids and sell them to paedophiles. What is MySpace UK going to do now?

[I Stole Your Identity] Authors Detail What You Need to Know About Identity Theft in New ...: provide information on how identity theft may be perpetrated and protection tips in a new book, “The Silent Crime: What You Need to Know About Identity Theft” (Twin Lakes Press, 2008).

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