Global Security Watch: Phishing Scam

Global Security Watch > Phishing Scam

[Internet Business Forums] The common defence against email phishing is Never Click on the Link provided on the email, and Never reply to emails with your login or personal information.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[The Secure Channel] Phishing attacks 101: It’s actually common for a victim of a phishing attack to have never even heard of the term “phishing”. A phishing attack is after all just a confidence scam which prays on the target’s ignorance of the scam. The criminal gains the target’s confidence by taking advantage of the target’s fear, compassion, or optimism in order to get something.

[Service Alerts] MAIL.MSU.EDU: Users reporting Phishing email: MAIL.MSU.EDU: Users reporting Phishing email.

[Blog of Scams] Bank of America Phishing Email Scam: It seemed that the scammers are after all banks, now I just received another phishing email. This time trying to scam users of Bank of America.

[The serpzone] WARNING! AdWords Phishing Scam: From the time I reported this to Google until the time I’m writing this post (less than 24 hours) the site was already taken down, but I’m willing to be new addresses will be created with the same page. Please don’t give them any CC information or login information.

[Flying Hamster] Phishing e-mail part of Army exercise: - More than 10,000 Soldiers, civilians and family members with military e-mail addresses received an e-mail March 30 promising free tickets to area theme parks, with a link to a Web site that appeared to belong to the Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command.”

[Blog of Scams] Franklin Bank Phishing Scam: A Phishing email from scammers posing to be Franklin Bank. Dear Franklin Bank CardHolder,. Access To Your Account Is Currently Unavailable. Please follow the link below to restore your account access:. Edited by Author. Thank you, ...

[umbc underground] Phishing Scam on UMBC Email: Everyone be advised: there is currently an email phishing scam going around. This means that people have been getting emails that ask for your password and other important information (to supposedly update UMBC databases).

[Information Technology Services Blog] Phishing Scam Advisory: For more about this, please visit the article “At Least 86 Campuses Have Been Hit in E-Mail ”˜Phishing’ Scam” at http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2887/at-least-86-campuses-have-been-hit-in-e-mail-phishing-scam.

[Blog of Scams] Wells Fargo Bank Phishing Email Again: Wells Fargo Bank Phishing Email Again! It has come again and again. Wonder if Wells Fargo can take action against such scammers, but I do not have their abuse email address to forward the scam phishing email to.

[techinfo] **WARNING!** Be ware of Email Password Phishing: It is not the policy of Information Resources to ever ask for your password, especially through email. The email sent out today was in fact, an email phishing scam. If you did respond to the email, you must change your password immediately.

[onyourmark, LLC Blog] Phishing Scam Targets Google AdWords Clients: The emails ask AdWords advertisers to click a link to verify account information or credit card numbers. The emails look very official and may appear to come from support@google.com and adwords-noreply@google.com.