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phishing scams
By: eba95 Date: August 5, 2010, 6:46 am
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Phishing Scams
Since most people won't reveal
their bank account, credit card
number or password to just
anyone, phishers have to take
extra steps to trick their victims
into giving up this information.
This kind of deceptive attempt
to get information is called
social engineering.
Phishers often use real company
logos and copy legitimate e-
mail messages, replacing the
links with ones that direct the victim
to a fraudulent page. They use
spoofed, or fake, e-mail addresses in
the "From:" and "Reply-to" fields of
the message, and they obfuscate
links to make them look legitimate.
But recreating the appearance of an
official message is just part of the
process.
Most phishing messages give
the victim a reason to take
immediate action, prompting
him to act first and think later.
Messages often threaten the
victim with account cancellation
if he doesn't reply promptly.
Some thank the victim for
making a purchase he never
made. Since the victim doesn't
want to lose money he didn't
really spend, he follows the
message's link and winds up
giving the phishers exactly the
sort of information he was
afraid they had in the first place.
In addition, a lot of people trust
automatic processes, believing
them to be free from human error.
That's why many messages claim
that a computerized audit or other
automated process has revealed that
something is amiss with the victim's
account. The victim is more likely to
believe that someone has been
trying to break into his account than
believe that the compute
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