Data Doctors Radio Program
Winter Wonder Scams
The Internet has created great new ways for people to shop during the holidays and, so too has it created new ways for scam artists to take advantage of unaware online shoppers. Scammers are always devising new tactics to cloak their activities and create a false sense of legitimacy. Nearly one in four US Internet users are targeted in phishing schemes and more than two-thirds of those targeted believed they were from legitimate companies.
Now scammers are personalizing scams to even further cloak their malicious intentions. Tune in this week as Ken, Brandon, and Chad discuss the threats to look out for this holiday season.
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Original Air Date: Dec 10, 2005
This Week's Links
- How do they get my info?
- New Internet scams on the rise
- Internet scams that can threaten your credit!
- Phishers try to reel in tax payers
- "Checking it Twice" for e-mail scams
- Tips for avoiding being scammed
- What is phishing and how can I stop it?
- Determing legitimate e-mails from phishing scams
- How can I tell if an e-mail offer is legitimate?
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Spear-Phishing: A hybrid form of phishing that is more distilled and potentially more potent because those behind the schemes bait their hooks for specific victims instead of casting a broad, ill-defined net across cyberspace. Spear-phishing is much harder to detect because bogus websites and e-mails not only look like near perfect replicas, but are also targeted at people known to have an established relationship with the sender being mimicked.
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