SPAM Alert: FACEBOOK AWARD 2011
What is Phishing The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a Website where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has. The Web site, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the user’s information. After lottery emails I found this new FACEBOOK AWARD 2011 style spams [...]
Categories: Internet Security Tags: FACEBOOK AWARD 2011, phishing, Spam
Job Scam
A job racket where 37 unemployed youth paid Rs 1.8 lakh each to a HR consultancy firm after being tricked into believing that they had got lucrative jobs at an IT firm, Wipro Ltd, has been busted following the arrest of four persons. The accused were identified as Rajiv Ranjan (30) from Bihar, Mohammed Azar (25) native of Andhra Pradesh, Sathya Priya (25) a resident of Tamil Nadu and M N Naryanana (29) hailing from Kerala, according to Bangalore Police Commissioner B G Jyothiprakash Mirji.
Categories: Internet Security Tags: job, phishing, scam, wipro
Phishing Email
Today morning when I checked my Gmail account, there was one email from Microsoft that I won jackpot of £1,000 000 . This is one of phishing email sent by some fake person. Daily thousands of people receiving such fake emails by spammers. People new to internet must be aware of such fake emails and should not share any personal information or bank details for such prices money. These are fake emails sent by spammers to steal your personal data or bank account details. Beaware of such phishing email and don’t share any information.
Categories: Concept, Internet Security Tags: phishing, phishing email, phishing scams
How to Avoid Phishing Scams
I know this post is too lengthy but it’s very useful in day today Internet surfing. Rather than getting fooled by some phishing activity better to know what is phishing. This kind of crime can happen with anyone. I have real life incidence of phishing with my very close friend ‘Sagar ’ who was robbed for 6000 RS three year back by some unknown person pretending that he is employee of ONGC and there is some opening in ONGC for engineer post. I am very sorry Sagar for sharing our experience with all ,but awareness can help someone. What is [...]
Categories: Internet Security Tags: email, phishing, Prevention, scam
What is Web Forgery
Web Forgery (also known as “Phishing”) is a form of identity theft that occurs when a malicious Web site impersonates a legitimate one in order to trick you into giving up sensitive information such as passwords, account details, or credit card numbers. Phishing attacks usually come from email messages that attempt to lure the recipient into updating their personal information on fake, but very real looking, Web sites.
Categories: Internet Security, Security Testing Tags: Forgery, phishing, website
URL obfuscation-Phishing Attacks
Link based tricks are commonly played upon as they are relatively easy to execute. It has been noticed that these kind of phishing attacks were extensively executed when this Internet threat was in its infancy stage. Given below is a list of some of such tricks with appropriate examples explaining how an attacker can use such links to trick the end user: Using Strings – Uses a credible sounding text string within the URLExample: http://XX.XX.43.102/ebay/account_update/now.phpNote : First two octates of the IP address have been hidden due to security reasons. However in a real time scenario this will point towards [...]
Categories: Internet Security Tags: phishing, url manipulation, URL masking, URL obfuscation
