UGN Phishing & Online Crime Reports UGN Phishing & Online Crime Reports
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The following are the latest developments in the computer industry's war on Phishing -- which has now become one of the most dangerous threats against computer users.
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Consumer reports has reported that consumers have a 1 in 3 chance of becoming a cybervictim; Phishing victim's losses up five-fold since 2005 survey -- consumers lost more than $8 billion over the last two years to phishing schemes, viruses and spyware. Consumer Reports
According to Web User, London, UK and Chris Williams, broadband expert at uSwitch.com:
"This criminal activity is a huge concern as it's growing at such a staggering rate. In August 2005 there were 160 phishing incidents reported; in August 2006 these figures leapt 800 percent to 1,484. And with phishing losses reaching £23.2 million in 2005 it's costing us over £63,000 a day."
In May, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, an industry association, detected 12,000 unique phishing sites, a 32 percent leap from February. See:
* www.consumerreports.org www.webuser.co.uk
So get yourself a phishing tool kit and you too can scam and defraud money from honest citizens. Just log into any of the cybercrime forums allowed to proliferate and continue business online.
The Advertiser at Gannett Online says:
The cybercrime forums gird a criminal economy that robs U.S. businesses of $67.2 billion a year, according to an FBI projection. Over the past two years, U.S. consumers lost more than $8 billion to viruses, spyware and online fraud schemes theadvertiser.gns.gannettonline.com
With a new scam targeting consumers who receive social security benefits popping up in e-mail inboxes, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan warned consumers not to give out their Social Security information or bank account numbers in response to an unsolicited e-mail. Government Technology - Folsom, CA, USA
Web hosting provider StreamlineNet has warned its customers about a 'new wave' of phishing emails being sent to them. ... HostSearch.com - USA
Online security site Netcraft this week reports that the MySpace site has been compromised with a spoof login form hosted on a cleverly named account hompage, which redirects the MySpace logins to a phishing server with a Spanish registered domain hosted in Paris, France. According to Netcraft, "it is convincing and even security-conscious users are at risk of becoming victims". At the time of writing, the MySpace account in question had been deactivated, however the principle on which the threat was based remained. Bigmouthmedia News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
Phishing e-mail messages arrive in millions of mailboxes every day, pretending to be from a bank such as Bank of America, or from an E-tailer such as eBay or ...
For the record 2 November
... October also showed a slight decrease of 0.06 percent in the proportion of phishing attacks compared with the previous month. www.enn.ie Security Park - Winkfield,UK
GoDaddy.com and other industry leaders comprising the CA/Browser Forum are working together to combat phishing and improve online security ... Earthtimes.org - USA
... Today I received another eBay phishing scam. ... Generally the URLs embedded in phishing emails are quite obviously dodgy as they clearly begin with an IP number. ... SitePoint - Australia
New Yorkers have some new weapons in the fight against identity theft. Several new laws are going to effect... a third new measure will allow lawsuits to be filed against those who pull the online scam known as "phishing.". News 10 Now - Syracuse, NY, USA
This workshop will focus on phishing trends that have emerged over 2005 and 2006 and discuss new threats to financial institutions to be aware of in 2007. ... PR.com (press release) - Levittown, NY, USA
If you get an email that appears to be from Fibre Federal Credit Union offering $100 to complete a survey, it's a phishing scam, according to credit union CEO ... Longview Daily News - Longview,WA,USA
The emails look real and that's what online scammers wants you to believe. Now, online crooks are trying to steal personal and financial ... WIFR - Rockford,IL,USA
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