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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Identity Theft: I_Need_Your_Account_Access_Info.com

Virtually every day, I keep getting scam emails supposedly from companies like ebay, paypal, Citibank and other regarding some issue with my account along with URLs that I can use to access that site. Of course, the purpose of such emails is to for the scammers to capture my user id and password info when I go to their fake Web sites and access my account. In most cases, I don't even have accounts with such firms, so it's easy to spot such emails as fake. However, that's not stopping scammers from coming up with more creative ways to steal customers' identity and their money.

Was reading an article recently regarding how many scammers are now buying Web site domain addresses that appear to be associated with well known banks and other financial institutions. Examples of such fake Web sites could include citi-bank.com, americanexpresscreditcard.com and so forth. Of course, the main purpose for scammers to buy such domain addresses will be record user's login information when they try to access their accounts on such Web sites, and then use that info to steal money from their accounts at actual Web sites.

So the best thing as always is to be vigilant of such new creative ways of the scammers. Personally, I try to avoid accessing any secure Web site through any URL in the email and instead just access the Web sites directly using their Web address

For the related article, check out: Information Week

posted by Ruby @ 6:43 AM

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