Reporting phishing scams      
If you believe you have been the victim of fraud, contact your financial institution immediately via phone or in person. If you have received a phishing email, you can usually send a copy to abuse@DOMAIN.com where DOMAIN.com signifies the company to which you are directing the email. For example, abuse@suntrust.com is the email address for sending phishing emails purporting to be from SunTrust Bank. If in the United States, you can also forward a copy to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) using the address spam@uce.gov. Be sure to forward the email as an attachment so that all important formatting and header information is preserved; otherwise the email will be of little use for investigative purposes.
 
AVIRA reveals new details on the online fraud attempt implying the name of the National Bank of Romania      
Yesterday morning, AVIRA specialists noted the e-mail spreading of a message that seemed to be part of a donations campaign, initiated by BNR (National Bank of Romania) in order to uphold the reconstruction of areas severely hit by floods this summer. The authors of this message were clearly taking advantage of the compassion and sympathy proven by the people after the recent devastating floods, in order to get card details and other personal information for identity theft purposes. Although this would be a first time for Romania, such practices are no longer new to the international IT environment, where they go by the name of phishing.
 
Spammer vs. Microsoft      
Robert Soloway hates Microsoft. Or so it seems. Soloway lost a court battle to the software giant, who accused Soloway of illegal spamming. According to Brian McWilliams, investigative journalist and author of Spam Kings, Soloway is allegedly one of the world's dirty dozen of top spammers.
 
Virus writers/hoaxsters exploit Tsunami      
Virus writers are now exploiting the December 2004 Tsunami disaster. The most recent example, the Zar worm (a.k.a. VBSun), is a mass-mailing email worm that sends itself to everyone listed in the Global Address Book. The subject of that email is "Tsunami Donation! Please help!" and the body reads simply "Please help us with your donation and view the attachment below! We need you!". The attachment is named TSUNAMI.EXE.
 
Scam emails deliver Trojaned goods      
Criminal emailers are increasingly exploiting MS04-013, an MHTML URL Processing vulnerability which allows a remote attacker to automatically and surreptitiously download and execute arbitrary code via miscreant websites or email. In many cases, the scammer uses a common phishing technique, composing an email that masquerades as correspondence from a legitimate financial institution. As with phishing scams, the email claims there is a problem with the user's account in an attempt to entice them to click the link and visit the spoofed website. Once on the site, the phishing scam ends and the malware takes over - a downloader Trojan is forced onto the victim's computer and executed, which in turn can be exploited to download other malicious code.
 
Email banking scams      
Emails falsely claiming to be from the likes of Citibank, NatWest, and other reputable banking entities attempt to entice recipients into divulging their ATM/Debit card and PIN numbers. Those who click on the link will be directed to an authentic banking site, but a small window asking for pertinent account info will also be displayed. This small window is not from the banking site. Instead, it captures the sensitive data and sends it to the miscreants behind the malicious email.
 
International Lottery Winner Scam      
Description: The International Lottery Winner scam attempts to trick recipients into believing they have won large sums of cash, and then bilks them out of their own dough in a similar fashion to the Nigerian 419 scam. Example of scam email: Subject: LOTTERY WINNER
 
Internet proves to be hospitable host      
Credit card scams have always been around but the Internet and email have allowed these scams to reach a far greater audience and potentially cause even more damage than in the past. Some of these credit card scams have two goals: to obtain valid credit card numbers and to harvest email addresses for future spam and scam purposes.
 
eBay Update Scam Resurfaces      
Bilks users out of credit card, bank account info An email pretending to be from support@ebay.com is designed to dupe members into revealing personal financial details, such as mother's maiden name, credit card account information, bank account number, pin code and a variety of other sensitive information.
 
IE Flaw could lead to phishing expedition      
vulnerability in Internet Explorer has had the news media talking and security experts worrying. The vulnerability causes a spoofed URL (web address) to appear in the browser's address bar, making it appear as if visitors are on one site, when in fact they are on another. Security experts fear such a flaw could be used by bank and credit card scammers to dupe even more users out of their critical financial details. News reports from USA Today and InformationWeek mistakenly 'credited' Secunia with having 'discovered' the flaw. In reality, the flaw was discovered by Zap The Dingbat and reported to the Bugtraq newsgroup on December 9th, 2003.
 
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