Fake e-mails from IMF
International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of fraudulent emails that claim to be from the organisation. Evident of communications claiming to be from or affiliated with the Washington-based multilateral lender surfaced.
Numerous scams that ranges from "phishing" attacks where the names of IMF officials are misused to deceive recipients into disclosing personal financial information to "spoofing" in which a fake IMF Web site was created with false contact details to mislead potential users.
According to IMF spokeperson, "The IMF does not send any unsolicited business communications to individuals, The IMF does not operate through other agents nor endorse the activities of any bank, financial institution, or other public or private agency."
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Katrina Phishing Scams
As people suffers, "internet entrepreneur" is find ways to be benefit themselves - a free for all E-Looters in action. Suspicious Web pages supposedly raising money for Gulf Coast relief efforts keep springing up about as fast as authorities can shut them down. These "relief sites" all of which ask for Paypal donations but do not make any claims that the money collected will benefit any relief organizations.
Most of these fraudulent Katrina-relief Web site addresses like NewOrleansCharities.com, Donate-Katrina.com, HurricaneKatrinaRelief.com, KatrinaDamage.com and KatrinaHelp.com. The route to a page that accepts PayPal donations but shows no indication of being affiliated with any nationally recognized charity.
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Fraudsters perfect the art of Phishing
Online identity stealers now prey on financial institutions, and they´re getting good at it. A recent flood of fake Citibank e-mail messages in the United States demonstrates the growing arsenal of technical and psychological tricks that online fraudsters, called phishers, are using to get people to divulge personal information. The same ploy was used on Citibank customers in Singapore last year.
Hackers first coined the term ´phishing´ in the mid-1990s to refer to the art of stealing America Online accounts. But e-mail messages collected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, an industry association in the US, show that fraudsters are now going where the money is. Post your comment
Anti-Phishing Working Group
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is an industry association focused on eliminating the identity theft and fraud that result from the growing problem of phishing and email spoofing. APWG has over 636 members from 407 companies which includes 8 of the top 10 US banks, 4 of the top 5 US ISPs and over 100 technology vendors.
Visit there website at antiphishing.org. Post your comment
Phishers Fake FDIC Web Site
Phishers spoofed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Web site again Thursday and using bogus e-mails, tried to entice consumers to sign up for non-existent service that tracks suspicious activity on credit, debit, and bank ATM cards. Like many other recent phishing scams, this one plays off consumers´ knowledge of the danger of identity theft.
Once consumers have been drawn to the site, a very close copy of the actual Web site of the FDIC, the government-backed insurer of bank accounts, they´re encouraged to "register" their cards with the service.
This isn´t the first time that phishers have used the FDIC as a disguise to trick consumers. Earlier this month, the Anti-Phishing Working Group detected a less sophisticated scam that tried to get users to give up their credit card account numbers, Social Security numbers, and PINs.
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