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Stimulus Checks Spur Increase In Phishing Scams, IRS Warns

Jul. 11--Seizing on the major fiscal news of the year, a rash of Internet scammers is trying to use federal economic stimulus checks as a hook to steal personal financial information, the Internal Revenue Service warns.

IRS Warns Taxpayers of Phishing-Related Scams

The Internal Revenue Service warned taxpayers of a rash of identity theft scams where thieves try to steal personal information by promising tax benefits or threatening penalties. The tax agency said taxpayers reported almost 700 attempted incidents of identity theft, or phishing, in May and June alone.

Stimulus Checks Are Bait Used By E-Mail 'Phishing' Scammers

Jul. 12--Seizing on the major fiscal news of the year, Internet scammers are trying to use federal economic stimulus checks as a hook to steal personal financial information, the Internal Revenue Service warns.

Cyveillance Reports Significant Increase in Phishing Attacks During First Half of 2008

Arlington, VA (PRWEB) July 31, 2008 -- Cyveillance, the world leader in cyber intelligence, today announced that 367 unique brands were first-time victims of targeted phishing attacks during the first half of 2008, representing an 80 percent increase over the second half of 2007. As noted in Cyveillance's upcoming 1H 2008 "Online Financial Fraud and Identity Theft Report", this increase in phishing attacks on new brands represents close to 20 percent of all new attacks since 2005.

Is There Really a Toolbar to Save Me from Phishing Scams?

Yes, there is a toolbar defense against getting phished. As you perhaps know, a "phishing" scam is a digital con game... where a convincing-looking login page lures you into typing your personal password. Commonly these phishing scams are fake versions of online banking, eBay and PayPal pages. If you are gullible or careless, you are likely to succumb and divulge your password to criminals. That is, unless you have an anti-phishing toolbar to help stop you before you get phished...

Top phishing scams for August revelaed

Phishing Security firm McAfee has revealed the 10 most common phishing scams for the month of August.

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Phishing attacks increase

INSECURITY COMPANY Cyveillance has reported a significant increase in phishing attacks over the past eight months.

Phishing attacks increase

Aharon Etengoff the Inquirer, Monday 1 September 2008. 09:59:00 Banks and credit unions targeted INSECURITY COMPANY Cyveillance has reported a significant increase in phishing attacks over the past eight months.

SIPC Warns Investors of New Identify Theft 'Phishing' Scheme Involving Phony Request for Confidential Financial Information

SIPC Warns Investors of New Identify Theft 'Phishing' Scheme Involving Phony Request for Confidential Financial Information

Group: Stimulus checks spent on porn

WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. monitor of adult Web sites said Internet pornography has seen an "upswing in sales" since taxpayers began receiving their stimulus checks.

SMS Phishing On the Increase

Cape Town, Jul 03, 2008 (Biz-Community/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX News Network) -- Companies that communicate with their customers using SMS could leave those same customers wide open to phishing, the fraudulent attempt to collect personal or banking details. Companies need to ensure that their customers are made aware of the types of SMS messages they send out, and what, if any, information they might request via the SMS channel to reduce the risk of SMS fraud through phishing attacks.

South Africa: SMS Phishing On the Increase

Companies that communicate with their customers using SMS could leave those same customers wide open to phishing, the fraudulent attempt to collect personal or banking details. Companies need to ensure that their customers are made aware of the types of SMS messages they send out, and what, if any, information they might request via the SMS channel to reduce the risk of SMS fraud through phishing attacks.

Stimulus Checks Are Bait Used By E-Mail 'Phishing' Scammers

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More Ways to Protect Yourself From Phishing

In my recent Editors' Notes post on Consumer Reports' recommendation that Mac users dump Safari because the Apple browser lacks the anti-phishing tools of Firefox and Opera, I focused on behavioral changes one can make that minimize the risks of phishing attempts. I didn't, however, discuss a relatively simple configuration change you can make to your Mac that will give you a real anti-phishing tool--in Safari or any other browser you might want to use.

Phone phishing on the increase

Companies that communicate with customers using SMS could leave those same clients wide open to phishing.

IRS Investigates Gold & Art Investments

IRS Investigates Gold & Art Investments (July 27, 2008) The ferocious costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have virtually drained the U.S. Treasury and I learn now that the IRS has been handed its marching papers by the Administration to find and deliver to the aforesaid Treasury, as much money as they can squeeze from delinquent taxpayers.

Phishing Scam Targets Apple's MobileMe Users

A recent phishing scam targeting users of Apple Inc.'s .Mac and MobileMe online services has successfully duped hundreds into divulging credit card and other personal information, a security company saidy. According to Dan Clements, the president of CardCops, the identity protection division of California-based Affinion Group Inc., the phishing campaign scammed between 100 and 200 people with mac.com addresses in just one day.

Phishing fraud on the rise

Fraudsters have been forced to change their tactics in a bid to get their hands on other people’s money – resulting in a sharp increase in the number of card cloning and phishing incidents.

Phishing fraud surges across UK

Fraudsters have been forced to change their tactics in a bid to get their hands on other people’s money – resulting in a sharp increase in the number of card cloning and phishing incidents.

Phishing fraud up by 182 per cent

Fraudsters have been forced to change their tactics in a bid to get their hands on other people’s money – resulting in a sharp increase in the number of card cloning and phishing incidents.

New Phishing Scam Announced

On Friday, Aug. 22, a new round of phishing scam messages has targeted the University of Arkansas e-mail accounts. These scams claimed to originate from University Police and indicated that the recipient’s account would be closed due to a system error. Further, the message asked users to reply with their e-mail address and password.

Tech woes: After phishing, it's now SMiShing!

NEW DELHI: Phishing is now spilling over to your mobile phone. The next time you receive an SMS from your mobile operator informing you about a service you have subscribed to and asking you to call a certain number to unsubscribe, beware, it can be a phishing message.

China forms anti-phishing alliance

In order to tackle phishing activities using CN domain names and to protect online safety, Anti-phishing Alliance of China (APAC) was founded on July 18, 2008. Its founding members include Chinese banks, securities companies, e-commerce companies, CN registry and registrars, as well as scholars. CNNIC, the registry of .CN, was appointed as the secretariat of APAC.

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