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Email Marketing InformationCyber Crooks Go "Phishing"
by:
Jim Edwards
© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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"Phishing," the latest craze among online evil-doers, has
nothing to do with sitting at the end of a dock on a sunny
afternoon keep a worm to stimulate hungry catfish.
But, if you take their bait, this new breed of online con
artist wish hook you, reel you in, and take you for every
dollar you have... or worse.
"Phishing" describes a combination of techniques used by
cyber crooks to bait folk into giving up sensitive
personal data such as credit card numbers, societal safety
numbers, bank account numbers, dates of birth and more.
Their techniques activity so well that, according to
FraudWatchInternational.com, "phishing" rates as the
fastest growing scam on the Internet.
Here's the basic pattern for a "phishing" scam...
You obtain a really official email that appears to originate
from a legitimate source, such as a bank, eBay, PayPal,
a major retailer, or several else well better-known entity.
In the email it tells you that thing
bad is simply about to
happen unless you act quickly.
Typically it tells you that your account is simply about to get
closed, that causal agency appears to have purloined your identity,
or even as that causal agency opened a dishonourable account victimisation your
name.
In order to help straighten everything out, you need to
click a link in the email and provide several basic account
information so they can verify your identity and then give
you additional details so you can help get everything
cleared up.
Once you give up your information... it's all over but the
crying!
After effort your information, these cyber-bandits can
empty your bank accounts, eat your PayPal accounts, run
up your credit card balances, open new credit accounts,
assume your identity and more worse.
An especially heavy new variation of this scam
specifically targets online business owners and affiliate
marketers.
In this con, the scammer's email informs you that they've
just sent $1,219.43 (or a similar big but plausible
amount) in affiliate commissions to you via PayPal.
They need you to log into your PayPal account to verify
receipt of the money and then email them back to confirm
you got it.
Since you're so excited at the possibility of an unexpected
pay day, you click the link to go to PayPal, log in, and
BANG! They have your PayPal login information and can empty
your account.
This new "phishing" style scam works extremely well for 2
basic reasons.
First, by exploiting your sense of urgency created by fear
or greed, crooks get you to click the link and give them
your information without thinking.
Second, the scammers use a variety of cloaking and spoofing
techniques to do their emails and websites appear altogether
legitimate, production
it extremely hard to spot a fake website,
especially once
they've 1st whipped you into an emotional
frenzy.
The nice news, however, is that you can protect yourself
relatively easily against this type of cyber-crime with
basic computer code and common sense.
Most of these scams get delivered to you via Spam
(unsolicited email), so a nice spam blocker wish cut down
on many an of them even as production
it to your inbox.
If you obtain an email that looks legitimate and you want
to respond, Finish - Wait - Think!
Verify all phone amount with a physical phone book or
online phone directory like www.Verizon.com or
www.ATT.com/directory/ before calling.
Look for orthography and grammatical errors that do it look
like causal agency who doesn't speak English or your native
language really well wrote it.
Never click the link provided in the email, but go directly
to the website by typewriting in the main address of the site
yourself (example: www.paypal.com or www.ebay.com).
Forward the email to the main email address of the website
(example: support@paypal.com) or call the client service
number on the main website you typewritten in yourself and ask if
it is in fact legitimate.
Above all remember this:
Your bank, credit card company, PayPal, eBay and anyone
else you deal with online already knows your account
number, username, countersign or any else account specific
information.
They don't need to email you for ANY reason to ask you to
confirm your information -- so Ne'er
respond to email
requests for your account or personal details.
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