Articles Tagged ‘phishing’
3 Dangerous Financial Scams and How to Avoid Them
Thursday, November 1st, 2012
Taking responsibility for our own financial health involves a lot of deliberate action on our parts. We actively monitor and research our investments, budget for our income and expenses, and try to avoid making decisions that would negatively impact our overall wealth.
But another aspect of keeping your financial situation healthy is to be on guard against those who would seek to do you harm. We’re talking about dangerous financial scams here. One thing that makes these scams so dangerous is that it’s not always so obvious that they’re scams.
Here is some advice on three of the most prevalent financial...
Learn How to Protect Yourself from Phishers
You’ll face many challenges and threats to your financial security virtually every day. Sometimes these threats are fairly straightforward and easy to guard against. Keep your checkbook and debit card protected at all times, choose strong and hard to guess passwords, memorize those passwords and don’t write them down anywhere.
But thieves are now using more sophisticated techniques to try to separate you from your money. Many of the new theft methods are known as “phishing” techniques. Phishing scams usually come in the form of emails which appear to come from a real company you do business with – usually...
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
You’ll face many challenges and threats to your financial security virtually every day. Sometimes these threats are fairly straightforward and easy to guard against. Keep your checkbook and debit card protected at all times, choose strong and hard to guess passwords, memorize those passwords and don’t write them down anywhere.
But thieves are now using more sophisticated techniques to try to separate you from your money. Many of the new theft methods are known as “phishing” techniques. Phishing scams usually come in the form of emails which appear to come from a real company you do business with – usually... Phishing Alert
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has placed more and more banks on its “watch list” of troubled institutions. This continues to create worry amongst the public at large. This has created a new type of phishing email.
Popular phishing attacks, emails that are designed to capture private information from consumers like social security numbers and passwords, have historically used schemes like online access to your account has been blocked click here to unblock your account. The naïve consumer would simply enter this information into a page that looks like it’s from your bank, however the page is being hosted by...
Monday, March 16th, 2009
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has placed more and more banks on its “watch list” of troubled institutions. This continues to create worry amongst the public at large. This has created a new type of phishing email.
Popular phishing attacks, emails that are designed to capture private information from consumers like social security numbers and passwords, have historically used schemes like online access to your account has been blocked click here to unblock your account. The naïve consumer would simply enter this information into a page that looks like it’s from your bank, however the page is being hosted by... 
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