FDIC Warns Consumers on E-Mail &#39;Phishing&#39; Scam
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The FDIC on Friday issued an alert about an increasingly common e-mail scam designed to steal personal information and money from millions of unwary consumers.
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Malicious e-mails purporting to come from the Better Business Bureau assert that a customer lodged a complaint against the recipient's business.
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GADFLY ALREADY the internet age has given us 'phishing', when criminals use emails to persuade you to give them your bank details.  Now it seems we have the less crooked but nonetheless enraging online experience of 'philfing'  an acronym for 'purposely hiding what I'm looking for'.
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Consumer group Which? says banks should automatically compensate victims of online phishing frauds.
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With one in every 400 emails now a suspected phishing attack, computer users are being encouraged to increase their knowledge, open their eyes, and pay attention.
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By John Reid Blackwell, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Jun. 7--Another local credit union is being targeted by phishers -- people trying to steal personal information online.
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Slashdot has a warning posted about the existence of a phishing scam directed toward Red Hat users. Read more to see the post. rixdaffy writes &quot;I just received an email from the &#39;Redhat Security Team&#39; telling
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Q: I have been receiving an increasing number of e-mail requests to participate in financial schemes that are clearly bogus and illegal.
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The tricky business of thwarting online fraud Logistic and technical issues have hampered the rollout of a system designed to thwart phishing scams by UK bank Barclays.â¦
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The attorney general's request that banks send spam to warn of phishing has some befuddled.
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US consumers and businesses have lost an estimated $US500 million ($688 million) to the internet scam known as &quot;phishing&quot;, with seven out of 10 lured to fake websites, according to a survey.
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Update to free browser will warn people if a Web site looks like a phishing scam, its maker says.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Consumers are bombarded with warnings about identity theft. Publicized threats range from mailbox thieves and lost laptops to the higher-tech methods of e-mail scams and corporate data invasions.
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EBay and PayPal, once the primary lures used by phishers to trick e-mail users into giving up personal information, aren&#39;t as popular as they used to be.According to security vendor Sophos, which monitors&#160;spam and phishing&#160;e-mails to catch new blasts and determine trends, the number of messages pretending to be from eBay or its payment subsidiary PayPal has dropped from 85 percent of all phishing e-mails a year ago to 21 percent in September.&quot;That&#39;s an impressive turnaround by anyone&#39;s standards,&quot; said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, in a prepared statement.Cluley attributes this drop in part to&#160;online initiatives&#160;by eBay and PayPal to educate their customers about phishing scams, and to PayPal&#39;s launch earlier this year of an&#160;authentication keyfob&#160;that creates a dynamic password for customers concerned with fraud.Sophos says the amount of phishing attacks circulating have stayed relatively consistent over the past year, but now phishers are using different tactics to try and fool recipients. Phishers are beginning to diversify by spoofing small credit unions, other online retailers, and overseas companies, he says.Network World is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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Security experts are saying that a well-intentioned effort by the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General to combat phishing may backfire.Earlier this week, State Attorney General Anne Milgram called on four banks -- Bank of America, Citibank, Washington Mutual, and New Jersey-based Sun National Bank -- to provide her with details on how they respond to phishing incidents.This is a good move that will probably raise awareness about phishing, observers say. However, Milgram also asked the banks to send e-mail to their online customers, warning them that the bank has been a recent target for phishing scams and offering advice on how to tell fake e-mails form the real thing.That raised a red flag with anti-phishing experts.&quot;The New Jersey Attorney General asking the banks to send out another e-mail to clients is opening up ... those banks to be phished yet again,&quot; said Paul Laudanski, leader of the Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination squad project. &quot;I can see the phishers writing in a new e-mail scam campaign &#39;The New Jersey AG has asked us to inform you that you have been phished, please click this link to secure your account.&#39; Trouble, trouble, trouble! This is a setup for failure,&quot; he wrote in an e-mail message.Dave Jevans, chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group said that while he applauded Milgram&#39;s effort to educate consumers by inquiring directly with bank CEOs, he &quot;would have preferred that the Attorney General waited to hear back from these banks before issuing a request to send e-mails out to all their customers. That type of e-mail can set the stage for waves of copy-cat phishing,&quot; he said via e-mail. &quot;If the phishers send out fake e-mails of this type before the banks get to it, there&#39;s a potential problem.&quot;Even Katherine Tassi, Washington State&#39;s assistant attorney general, said she thought there could be problems. &quot;Consumers are already confused enough about whether e-mail from a bank is authentic or not,&quot; she said via e-mail. &quot;A lot of banks do, in fact, communicate by e-mail to their consumers, which is something that makes the problem worse.&quot; That&#39;s because consumers become more trusting of the e-mails, even messages that may be from a malicious source.Milgram&#39;s spokesman, Lee Moore, said that banks should use every means possible to educate their customers about phishing -- including e-mail. &quot;Banks need to compete with the phishers in the customer&#39;s e-mail box with the right message,&quot; he said.The New Jersey AG has been receiving more and more phishing complaints of late and is coming to view the phenomenon as a growing concern, Moore added.As of late Thursday, his office had not heard back from any of the banks.
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The authors of the fraudulent e-mails are just phishing for customers' personal information, according to SouthTrust Bank.
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The Internal Revenue Service warned computer users not to fall for phony e-mails that scare people into believing they are under tax investigation &#151; then give scammers access to their computer hard drives.