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Phishing. Phishing is one way that identity thieves use the Internet to retrieve your personal information, such as passwords and account numbers. The thieves' techniques include sending hoax emails claiming to originate from legitimate businesses and establishing phony websites designed to capture your personal information. For example, you may receive an urgent email claiming to come from your bank and directing you to a website where you're asked to update or verify your account number or password. By responding you give identity thieves an opportunity to steal your confidential information. Phishing is difficult to detect because the fraudulent emails and websites are often indistinguishable from legitimate ones and the perpetrators change identities regularly. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| NEW YORK -- Over the past several years, the financial services industry has increasingly developed and offered automated methods of helping their customers ensure that they are actually in contact online with their institutions and not being spoofed into communications with fake Websites. This will enable secure home banking services that are particularly vulnerable to attacks by fraudsters using fake websites, stolen passwords, phishing and other schemes to obtain account information. AOL's lawsuits allege that these phishing gangs - some believed to operate from abroad - victimized AOL and CompuServe members through emails that attempted to trick and lure them to fake Websites of legitimate online companies, for the purpose of fooling them into giving up their personal identifying information, such as AOL screen names, passwords, and credit card information. |
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