06-07-2005, 04:05 AM
OK, here is the irony. This type of scam is called "Phishing". As many of you said, this is all over. The nigerians started the one with the bank account, and now several sites try to look like a real site but they aren't. Any time they ask you to confirm a password, credit card number, or acct number, you know it ain't right. I actually work in the fraud area at my work. Here are a couple new ones that are popping up.
1- ATMs: they place a camera in the ATM or have someone with a good looking glass from far away as you type in your pin. Or they will replace the reader with a skimmer that copies all your data. The funniest one I saw was a sign that said swipe your card to clean the magstripe. Many people did, and all it was doing was recording their data to put on a counterfeit card.
2- This is the scary one. There are now new programs out there that get downloaded to your computer that record every keystroke you make. So if you do any financial transactions, they have it all. Its growing fast.
Anyway, sorry to take this off topic, but I had to chuckle about the phishing.
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1- ATMs: they place a camera in the ATM or have someone with a good looking glass from far away as you type in your pin. Or they will replace the reader with a skimmer that copies all your data. The funniest one I saw was a sign that said swipe your card to clean the magstripe. Many people did, and all it was doing was recording their data to put on a counterfeit card.
2- This is the scary one. There are now new programs out there that get downloaded to your computer that record every keystroke you make. So if you do any financial transactions, they have it all. Its growing fast.
Anyway, sorry to take this off topic, but I had to chuckle about the phishing.
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