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Protecting
yourself and your kids.
What
are phishing schemes?
Phishing schemes are email scams designed to trick
recipients into releasing personal account
information, usually by persuading them to open an
email attachment or follow a website link whereupon
they are prompted for everything from bank card PIN
numbers to social secuirty numbers and other critical
financial details. Visit the following links for
information on how to protect yourself from Phishing.
Consumer
Advice: How to Avoid Phishing Scams
Sample
phishing email sent to accima users 5/2008
Sample
Phishing Email
Anti-Phishing
Workgroup
http://www.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=11433
Scam
Busters
Chat
Safety
The following articles and websites are
designed to help you chat safer on the internet.
Safety
Tips
Kids
and Safety in Chat Rooms and Web Logs (Blogs)
More Security
Links
Botnets have become a huge
underground crime business, and the
security industry has few answers. See a real botnet
in action in
our image gallery.
http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-4649-5-92-188085-539406-0-0-0-1
Slide Show: Botnet Command and Control
http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-4649-5-92-188085-539409-0-0-0-1
The Following is an
example of an email received from one of our
customers. Please Read!
Here's another
example of what people fall for. This customer
DID try to open this email but her antivirus program
(thankfully!!!!) caught the virus before it infected
her computer. We will ALWAYS sign our name to
an email that we send to them. It won't be
from something like "The Accima Support
Team". The one exception to that rule
would be when customers get email from postini, but
it's all clearly marked.
----- Original Message -----
From: Accima
Webmaster
To: Customer
Name blocked for safety
Sent: Wednesday, October 18,
2006 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: Email Account
Suspension
----- Original Message -----
From: Accima
Customer
To:Accima
Sent: Tuesday, October 17,
2006 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Email Account
Suspension
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I'm sorry - I was unable to
get into the attached document. I got the
following message:
"Viruses found in the
attached files."
How much do I owe? I will
call Odessa and give them my debit card
number.
-------Original
Message-------
Date: 10/17/06
22:08:53
To: Customer
name blocked
Subject: Email
Account Suspension
Dear user (username blocked for
safety),
It has come to our attention that your
Accima User Profile ( x ) records are out of
date. For further details see the attached
document.
Thank you for using Accima!
The Accima Support Team
+++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
+++ Accima Antivirus - www.accima.com |
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