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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
Anti-Phishing
Workgroup
http://www.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=11433
Scam
Busters
PhishTank lists a
current phishing threat found circulating the internet. The page shows
a current internet site that is a phishing scheme everything after the first
"/" on this page is a scam
Please do not input any
information! http://www.phishtank.com/phish_detail.php?phish_id=408662
People should NEVER give
out information on a form like this.!! By
Putting the first part of a URL (http://83.100.217.63) into Google it comes
up as a phishing site.
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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 |
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