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Take The Time To Fight Phishing
Here's a serious but apolitical topic that is nonetheless important. Five minutes out of your day can go a long way to protect millions of Americans. "Phishing" emails. We all get them. They are made to appear like legitimate emails from financial institutions, designed to panic you into taking hasty steps to "protect" your account. These actions, of course, include supplying important personal and account information. How do you identify a phishing email? Microsoft has some pointers: http://www.microsoft.com/pr... Now, when we receive phishing emails, how many of us simply ignore them? Don't. Take the time to forward the fraudulent emails to the actual financial institution that is being impersonated. They will collect forwarded emails and supply them to investigators. How do you find out where to forward fraudulent emails? Manually type in the URL (Web address) of the institution being impersonated. Do not click on the link in the email itself. It's a fake. Look for a link to "Contact Us," "Security," Customer Service," or the like. Sooner or later you will find instructions on how and where to forward fraudulent emails for investigation. Here are the reporting email addresses for some of the most frequently impersonated institutions:
National reporting email address: spam@uce.gov When you get such an email, please take the time and trouble to forward the email to the institution's fraud investigation department. Each forwarded email that they receive strengthens their case against the perpetrators of email fraud.
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posted by
Hardliner4freedom
on Jun 22, 2007 at 07:08 AM
Important
posted by
NancyII
on Jun 22, 2007 at 07:29 AM
Thanks for posting those addresses H4F. I usually do delete them because a lot have the warning before you open them that they may be harmful and do you know the sender. I'll send all the rest to the addresses above though...I hate that stuff. Lately it seems I'm a lonely sexually frustrated man who needs the company of Jack OR Jill and sometimes otherw who have names similar to names on my address list or even on the blog. They are watching us. Whoooodoooodoooodooo. How nice for them that they have robots to do the work for them. Technology isn't always preasant is it? Thanks again..I've made note of the addresses. posted by
samheath
on Jun 22, 2007 at 07:32 AM
These should be sent to your server and the government spam reporting sites as well. You ought to "block sender" also. Many people do not know there is a spam reporting government site.
posted by
Katatak
on Jun 22, 2007 at 07:40 AM
Great post and thanks. I didn't know there were reporting sites and I will take your advice. I just recieved the other day a "paypal" email to "confirm" my transactions. I junked it but it did make me a little afraid because I had signed for a free music site and then promptly cancelled it the next day. I thought they might be billing me. This kind of post is a good one to simply repost over time as a reminder and for new folks like me who don't know the options. Thanks, Hardliner posted by
Hardliner4freedom
on Jun 22, 2007 at 07:59 AM
Good ideas, Kat. I've added a permanent link to both my profile and my sidebar.
posted by
Katatak
on Jun 22, 2007 at 08:22 AM
I checked it out on your profile page, great way to do it. Have a good one. posted by
jasonsperber
on Jul 25, 2007 at 02:33 PM
A friend of mine just sent me this quiz designed to see how well you can see through phishing schemes (I got 10 out of 10 right!): http://www.siteadvisor.com/... posted by
ProgressivePete2
on Jul 25, 2007 at 02:42 PM
I only got 2 out of 10 but the 2 I got were the only sites on the list I use. I still suck though.
posted by
Hardliner4freedom
on Jul 25, 2007 at 02:44 PM
Good gob, Jason. I got 9. :-/ That Chase one was bloody tough. posted by
randomfactor
on Jul 25, 2007 at 02:55 PM
Good stuff, but Sam, it usually does no good to "block sender." The next one will come from the same guy with a completely different "From:" line. . 9 of 10 right. Missed one on Amazon. posted by
sagefever
on Jul 25, 2007 at 03:01 PM
* hrumph* I thought I was the lonely frustrated man~lol I get those too, love that one Nancy.I always report them,and last week I won the lottery in England~Costa Coffee~but ,was I surprised(not) it was a scam...straight to the Mother Company of Costa Coffee.Thanks for the links H4F...dang it was so small I had a hard time reading,5 out of 10,but I have and use Site adviser.
posted by
robbwillis
on Jul 25, 2007 at 03:14 PM
10/10, but not for the reasons they said, so I was lucky.
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