The Treasury is warning of a new ‘phishing’ attack whereby taxpayers are being tempted to part with personal information such as bank account numbers and credit card details.
Don’t get fooled
If you are a user of the various social networks, such as Facebook, you may have noticed an apparent increase in ‘phishing’ attempts to try and lure you to an obscure website and part you from your login information. Seen quite a few in the past few days and some of them look almost genuine, logos and all. The general …
Misleading headline?
Hotmail security breach spreads as 20,000 Gmail and Yahoo! passwords are posted online. As is quite common with the Daily Wag and Cleavage, a bit of a misleading headline. Yes, thousands of email passwords etc, from not only Hotmail but also Yahoo, Google, AOL, Earthlink and others, have been posted online but the information was not obtained as a result …
Fishing and phishing…
Fishing on Torrecilla beach today.
Phishermen flourishing amidst the turmoil
The only industry booming during the current financial turmoil seems to be the phishing industry. Scammers are taking advantage of the chaos and confusion in the financial world to try and con people into parting with valuable information. Chase, Wachovia and Bank of America are currently among the most popular targets with scammers, but British banks expected to rise in …
New phishing attack relating to pending Income Tax refunds
A new phishing attempt has been detected by the Agencia Tributaria (Inland Revenue) whereby fraudsters are sending out emails notifying people of a pending refund.