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Nearly 1.5 million credit card accounts may be at risk for fraud following a security breach at payment processor Global Payments. This may prompt a wave of phishing email and phone scams, as villians try to hit you in a weak moment when you’re wondering if your accounts were compromised. Hopefully you’ve heard about the …
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 9–> The Better Business Bureau office in Monroe is warning people of an email scam that uses the BBB’s name to lure people to click on a link that infects their computers with a virus. Jo Ann Deal, president and chief executive officer of the BBB of Northeast Louisiana, said people in …
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Halifax the banking conglomerate based in UK is advising accountholders for exercising caution following one fresh scam e-mail, which while circulating online, is targeting their mailboxes. Softpedia.com published this on March 26, 2012. Carrying a header: “IMPORTANT -Halifax Online Service Message,” and addressing recipients as “Dear Customer,” the fake electronic mail seems to inform them …
Specialists from Sophos the security company have warned of fake e-mails posing as messages from IRS (Internal Revenue Service) that presently circulating online, are actually aiming at innocent business-owners. Displaying captions like “IRS notification of your tax appeal status,” “Your tax return appeal is declined,” or “Rejection of your tax appeal,” the phony e-mails tell …
In its annual review of global security threats, Websense says a major trend it observed last year is that more malware connections, hosting and phishing appear to be occurring in the United States and Canada. Facebook scammers host Trojan horse extensions in the Chrome Web store. “50 percent of malware connections lead to the U.S.,” …
It seems scammers are becoming too honest for their own good these days, that’s if this latest Amazon phishing email is anything to go by. It starts by explaining that your account may have been subject to a phishing attack and even goes on to explain what this means. It then asks you to follow …
(Neb.)-Chadron Police Department Warns Of “Phishing” Scam By: Roxie Graham-Marski Posted at: 03/30/2012 05:58 PM Back to News Printer Friendly Version Send Story to a friend.
New Strategies to Fight Phishing As the Fraud Threat Grows, Battle Plans Change By Tracy Kitten, March 30, 2012. Credit Eligible Tweet When it comes to financial fraud, banking institutions are losing the battle. The primary culprit: phishing. Phishing schemes, which are most often carried out by e-mail or instant-messaging, aim to dupe users into …
Microsoft has somewhat controversially claimed that money mules are the ultimate victims of phishing emails, rather than the consumers or banks that cyber-crooks target in online banking scams. Mules act as middlemen who receive funds from compromised bank accounts before sending the bulk of the cash overseas to the organisers of scams, who are often …
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<!– Sign up for our Newsletters | –> Sign up for our Newsletters | Email the Editor | Print In its annual review of global security threats, Websense Inc., says a major trend it observed last year is that more malware connections, hosting and phishing appear to be occurring in the United States and …
India Inc Loses Rs 172 Crore From Phishing Attacks In 2011 CRN Network, March 29, 2012, 1030 hrs RSA has released its findings on phishing attacks in 2011 and estimates that India Inc lost Rs 171.94 crore or $38.2 million last year. Furthermore RSA established that in 2011 the total number of losses was Rs …
SEATTLE, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — It has been four years since the world worried about the havoc a virus called “Conficker” might wreak online on April Fool’s Day, while new threats, including the ramped up spread of botnets, virus-laden advertising and malicious spear phishing are increasing. The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) today …
CIO.in News Phishing Attacks Threaten Maruti Suzuki’s Brand Prameet Kataria( name changed) is a disgruntled man. Just two week the 23-year-old job seeker from Faridabad was ecstatic when he received an employment offer from the Gurgaon- based auto major Maruti Suzuki. The letter titled Maruti Suzuki’s Direct Recruitment offer was issued in the name of …
You know what happened next, right? Guillaume says she contacted the owner through the Web site, which is owned by the U.S. vacation rental listing site HomeAway, and wired him the money. Then she discovered that she wasn’t dealing with the real owner, but with someone who had fraudulently obtained the owner’s e-mail password, a …
RSA Logo Telecom Lead India: Indian enterprises lost Rs 171.94 crore in 2011 due to phishing attacks, according to RSA, a security division of EMC. The findings by RSA suggest that India ranks in the top 5 most targeted countries for phishing attacks. Furthermore, RSA established that in 2011 the total number of losses was Rs 5760 crore …
A cruel new email phishing scam preys on visa holders with the phony promise of a green card in return for cash, FoxNews.com has learned. The emails, under an official-looking U.S. State Department letterhead, tell recipients they are among 50,000 winners drawn at random from more than 12 million entries in the Diversity Immigrant Visa …
RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) – Seniors beware — the Better Business Bureau is warning of phone calls phishing for your banking information. Better Business Bureau President Tom Gallagher is disgusted over the latest scam hitting the Richmond area. The victim: 92 years old. The scam: crooks calling attempting to get her banking information. “If they keep you on the phone …
INLSA On guard: Banking Ombudsman Clive Pillay warns that people are still falling for phishing scams. Picture: Cara Viereckl Mzansi bank accounts, established in 2004 as a means of making banking more accessible and affordable to previously “unbanked” South Africans, have sadly been used to further a rather less noble cause in some cases. Because …