1

New Phishing Scams Available on the Web

Hackers and phishers don't rest until they devise a new scheme, by which they can force honest web users into giving them their personal information. A number of phishing schemes have recently been reported that appear to use a scenario based on recent worldwide events. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has recently warned the general public about a new scheme by which scammers intended to take the users' IRS fund check. According to the FBI, users would receive an email, presumab... Read »
Created by deeksha Created 15 weeks 3 days ago – Made popular 15 weeks 3 days ago
Category: Security   Tags:

Similar stories

PayPal Phishing Scam Explained by Yahoo Created 15 weeks 2 days ago
New Scheme – Voice Phishing Created 27 weeks 20 hours ago
Apple Phished for the First Time in History Created 14 weeks 2 days ago
Google Talks about Phishing Created 17 weeks 1 day ago
No URLs in Recent Phishing Attempts Created 5 weeks 3 days ago
Teach a Man to Phish and He'll Feed on Fools for a Lifetime Created 21 weeks 6 days ago
Phishing Attack Uses IRS as a Front Created 6 weeks 13 hours ago
PayPal Phishing Scam Explained by Yahoo Created 15 weeks 2 days ago
Phishing scams occur every once in a while and users have started to get used to them; nevertheless, there are some cases when such an attack may prove to be pretty dangerous.
New Scheme – Voice Phishing Created 27 weeks 20 hours ago
Phishing is one of the most certain means of acquiring some personal information period. Either the victim doesn’t know he/she is visiting a fake secure site or is providing the information via email to somebody asking for it while posing as an official doesn’t really matter to the phishers. All that matters is to get the job done, so they have stepped up their game and went ahead to attempt pulling off the same scheme via voice.

Sophos, an IT security and control firm, was noticed about the ...
Apple Phished for the First Time in History Created 14 weeks 2 days ago
Phishing scams have a long history on the web so there's no surprise that new attacks have been detected by security companies in the world.
Google Talks about Phishing Created 17 weeks 1 day ago
Phishing attacks are extremely dangerous because they usually target financial details or other private information belonging to ordinary users.
No URLs in Recent Phishing Attempts Created 5 weeks 3 days ago
According to research conducted by Internet security company TrendMicro, phishers are resorting to new ways of fooling users.
Teach a Man to Phish and He'll Feed on Fools for a Lifetime Created 21 weeks 6 days ago
Phishing is a tactic known to malicious hackers ever since the first one crawled out of a swamp and onto dry land. It's another variation on social engineering. The phisher's goal is to get people to open themselves up to technical vulnerabilities through nontechnical means. However, even though most e-mail users have become more savvy about obvious scams, phishing is evolving.
Phishing Attack Uses IRS as a Front Created 6 weeks 13 hours ago
US citizens are warned that a spam message claiming to originate from the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) is circulating on the Internet.
eBay Points Fingers at Romania’s Lack of Interest in Cybercrime Created 24 weeks 2 days ago
After seeing out how several warnings sent to a number of countries that have been the most productive in phishing attacks hit a brick wall, eBay burst and warned that there must be something more that can be done to stop fraudsters from targeting auction sites. Alongside Romania, which was nominated as having the biggest problem, were China and Russia, all three the source of the majority of the scams aimed at eBay users for personal and account details, silicon.com reported.

The charges bro...
E-Mailers Beware: Phishers Never Sleep Created 22 weeks 18 hours ago
Can you recall the five worst phishing scams to grace your e-mail in-box? Can you spot a genuine e-mail from your financial institution or government agency? Don't feel too technologically challenged if your answer is no to either -- or both -- of these questions. Even security experts are hard-pressed to choose the worst phishing scams.

User login

Syndicate

Syndicate content