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Are Corporations Perpetuating Phishing Scams?
Filed in archive Dangers by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on February 24, 2008
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My friend Alec Saunders is having a call at 11am Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5) related to phishing-hackers setting up legitimate-sounding or looking sites upon which to capture your private information. You can either join this call if you're a Facebook member and you've added the Free Conference Call app, or head on over to saunderslog.com later on Monday to listen to the resulting podcast.

Quoting from the email Alec sent out:

Despite the increase in voice phishing fraud and FBI warnings, both AT&T and AMEX have recently rolled out auto-dialer systems that are indistinguishable from fraudsters systems. In doing so, these trusted institutions are desensitizing consumers to the risks of fraud and needlessly conditioning consumers to become easy victims of these kinds of attacks.


Fraudsters have been setting up systems like this to capture credit card information for Nefarious uses. You'd think these companies would understand this and either tell people to call the number on the bill or the back of the card. Guess not.

I've been on these Squawk Box calls before and they are lively and entertaining. If you've got something to say or have questions about Phishing, I highly recommending joining this call.



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