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.