http://blog.iovation.com/2009/05/11/new-phishing-scam-spoofs-social-security-administration/ protect online businesses from cyber criminals Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.iovation.com/2009/05/11/new-phishing-scam-spoofs-social-security-administration/comment-page-1/#comment-600 » Vishing Attacks For Identity Theft? How to Protect Yourself. : iovation Blog Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:56:02 +0000 http://blog.iovation.com/?p=219#comment-600 [...] a recent post I spoke about the recent phishing attack spoofing the social security administration. Today I would like to discuss a variation of this identity theft scam, vishing. Where phishing [...] [...] a recent post I spoke about the recent phishing attack spoofing the social security administration. Today I would like to discuss a variation of this identity theft scam, vishing. Where phishing [...]

]]> http://blog.iovation.com/2009/05/11/new-phishing-scam-spoofs-social-security-administration/comment-page-1/#comment-599 Scott Olson Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:34:35 +0000 http://blog.iovation.com/?p=219#comment-599 There hasn't been any new news about this particular incident since May 11th, but the essence of it is that scammers are targeting recipients of tax rebates with fake e-mails that direct them to a scammer website that poses to be the Social Security Administration. From there they use social engineering to obtain their social security number as well as other personal information. This is just another variation of phishing attacks that have been becoming more prevalent over the past 5 to 10 years. Wikipedia has a good writeup about phishing at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing. Hope that helps. There hasn’t been any new news about this particular incident since May 11th, but the essence of it is that scammers are targeting recipients of tax rebates with fake e-mails that direct them to a scammer website that poses to be the Social Security Administration. From there they use social engineering to obtain their social security number as well as other personal information. This is just another variation of phishing attacks that have been becoming more prevalent over the past 5 to 10 years. Wikipedia has a good writeup about phishing at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing. Hope that helps.

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