The Continuing Phight against Phishing!

The various attempts to fool you into thinking that you are interacting with a legitimate enterprise online continues to grow.

"Phishing" for your personal information usually starts with an e-mail in your Inbox that looks like it came from your bank, Ebay, PayPal, the IRS or any number of other real entities.

If you get fooled by the e-mail and click on a link, you will be transported to a website that looks exactly like the real thing, but is designed to get you to give up some prime information about yourself.

What are the latest scams? How can you become more aware of this increasingly more sophisticated fake messages and sites? What should you do if you think you have already fallen for a phishing scam?

These questions and more are answered for you by the Data Doctors on this week's show!

Join us every Saturday from 12:00–2:00PM on FM News/Talk 92.3 as we discuss your computer questions at: 602.277.5827 or e-mail your questions during (or before) the broadcast using the ask a question page.

Original Air Date: May 10, 2008

• Phishing Defined
• Recognize phishing scams and fraudulent e-mails
• Eight tips to Avoid Phishing Scams
• Where can I report Phishing?
• Beware of "Pharming" exploits
• Pharming: How You Can Beat This Growing Threat
• Beware of "Vishing" scams
• How to avoid "vishing" scams
• Reading the Email Header

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