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Latest 'phishing' scam targets Visa customers

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Mon, 12/29/2003 - 17:56 — Christoph C. Cemper

Latest 'phishing' scam targets Visa customers with scam E-mails that advise consumers to 'reactivate their accounts' ...

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Security experts are warning of a new Internet scam that preys on Visa credit card holders, using e-mail and a specially designed Web site to harvest customer account numbers and personal identification numbers.

The ruse is the latest example of so-called phisher scams and comes as one e-mail security company reported that incidents of such scams, which use decoy Web pages and spam messages to trick unsuspecting users into divulging sensitive information, were up 400% this holiday season.

hmmm reminds me on the paypal scam I got some days ago…

from Macworld

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Tumbleweed and the Anti-Phishing Working Group estimate that more than 60 million e-mail scam messages have been sent in the last two weeks and seek to take advantage of confusion and increased online transactions during the holiday season.

On average, 5 percent of recipients responded to the scam e-mail, Tumbleweed said.

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Wed, 07/21/2004 - 18:48 — Inspector Brown (not verified)

Latest 'phishing' scam targets Visa customers

Our free software, Inspector Brown empowers users to fight back against scams, fraud, identity theft, phishing, and spam.

Users install the software and have the ability to report fraudulent sites.

The software works similar to anti virus software, it alerts users to fraudulent websites each time they visit such a site.

We give each user a unique user ID and key to keep everyone honest and the black list accurate.

Mon, 10/18/2004 - 13:12 — jabra (not verified)

Latest 'phishing' scam targets Visa customers

thx

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