FDIC warns about e-mail 'phishing' scam

Agency issues its warning eight months after criminals began using its name and reputation to perpetrate e-mail fraud.

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Scam sent thur E-mails

I get alot of these phishing emails from a family member and his wife and children have died to my acct has been frozen. One thing this report did not say is that if Citibank, U.S. Bank. Capital One, SunTrust and Wells Fargo has a problem with your Acct. That they would not send an email notice. If you have a problem they will contact you by snail mail, Postal mail. Another hint is to look at your email header and that will tell you where the mail address started from. Then you will see that there is a diffrent email address for you to return your info. If a company like the ones listed in this report would have their own email address. Like for example [e-mail], net or org. What is the best advice is that when you see these emails and you are a member to one of these companies. CALL THIs! BANK, COMPANY to see if there is a problems with your Acct. Use your head. DONT ANSWER ANY EMAILS THAT YOU ARE NOT SURE OF. Protect yourself an your information from these scams.

Another thing these phishing scams will have spoof address for you to click on. When you click on there Spoof Link it will look like the company/bank website and you think that this was a real email contact. Then you give your information and now the scammers has the info they need to clean your acct. If you look at the address link you will know that it a spoof. Again call the company/bank before you make any moves to reply with these scams.

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Why is everyone so behind?

It always seems the normal computer user is always left out. I've seen a huge burst in news reports about Phishing. But the fact is, for anyone wondering, this practice is older than many of the internet's users! I first saw a massive surge of this method of identity theft on American Online right around the release of version 2.5 into 3.0 which was early 90's.

Same thing with Phreaking. I saw a news article on this here at cnet.com. Whereas a short search can bring up documents written 10 or more years ago.

Who does your editing

May I have the opportunity to speak with someone who is in charge of your editing. Since you are a highly respected institution, your email messages shouldn't contain errors. Please direct this email to the person in charge of editing.

P.S. I really enjoy your articles.

Thanks.

Belinda

A idea that might help

About e-mail 'phishing' scam. There is a URL that they want you to click on and give them this info that they are Phishing for. This is called spoofed website.A spoofed website is typically made to look like a well known, branded site (like ebay.com or citibank.com) with a slightly different or confusing URL. There is a FREE software that will help you to see if what you are clicking on is the TRUE website or a spoofed one. The software is called SpoofStick.

This software will let you know more about the url that you clicked on. So if you are not sure of that phishing email is true and want to know if is a true site . This software will help.

You can download it for free at the corestreet website http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/
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