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On the Trail of the Robocall King-Part 1

Posted by :Henry On : January 27, 2020
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Category: BOTS ON LINE, ROBOCALLS, SCAM TEXT & EMAIL MESSAGE EXAMPLES, SCAMMERS

Tags:cracking the robocall code, spying on robocalls

An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions.

PART ONE

Brad Young, a lawyer at TripAdvisor, arrived at the company’s offices in Needham, Massachusetts, on October 12, 2015, to find an email from his boss, Seth Kalvert, the company’s general counsel. In itself that wasn’t strange. As a travel site built on crowdsourced wisdom, where hundreds of millions of ordinary people post reviews and rate businesses, TripAdvisor is susceptible to fakery meant to inflate the ranking of a so-so restaurant or stain the reputation of a storied hotel. Young oversaw a group responsible for fending off these efforts, so he frequently got questions from Kalvert about con artists, cunning new deceits, and other shady corners of the law.

But this email was different. Kalvert’s wife had received a robocall offering an exclusive vacation deal as a reward for her loyal accumulation of “Trip­Advisor credits.” That would have been nice if TripAdvisor credits were a thing, but they weren’t. The call was also odd because TripAdvisor didn’t engage in telemarketing, much less robocalling. Kalvert wanted Young to look into it.

The anti-fraud team was, in Young’s words, “the company’s secret sauce,” adept at tackling every deception the internet had to offer. But the hustle meant to entice Kalvert’s wife relied on old-school telephony. Cracking it would require an unusual set of skills. Luckily, Young knew just the person to turn to.

Fred Garvin had joined TripAdvisor’s anti-fraud team eight years earlier. He’d been employed in a series of short-term jobs: mechanic, audio editor, anything that seemed interesting enough to hold his attention for a while. He was out of work when a friend saw an opening for a content moderator at TripAdvisor and urged Garvin to apply. He worked at home for a while, under the radar, but pretty soon managers started noticing his obsessive streak and a knack for what he called “research.” As a kid growing up in a small New England town in the pre-internet era, he’d tracked down the addresses of celebrities so that he could request an autograph; he got a postcard signed by the B-52s and one from Mr. Bill, a famous Saturday Night Live character from the 1970s. (The name “Fred Garvin” is another SNL reference, one of several professional aliases he adopted to protect his identity from the scammers and fraudsters he chases. It comes from an old sketch with Dan Aykroyd as Fred Garvin, male prostitute.) Garvin’s manager recommended him for a position with the anti-fraud team. “He’s the most cynical person I’ve ever met,” she said. “He will question everything.” He was a perfect fit.

Young asked Garvin to look into the suspicious phone call. He said he figured it was probably the work of “some two-bit hustler” and wouldn’t take long to sort out. Garvin, though, had only one phone call to go on, and a simple question: Who was on the other end of the line?

PART TWO TO COME

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More than 3Billion fake emails sent daily as phishing attacks continue to persist

Posted by :Henry On : June 28, 2019
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Category: PHISHING SCAMS, REPORTS PAPERS, SCAM TEXT & EMAIL MESSAGE EXAMPLES, SCAMMERS

Tags:3Billion fake emails sent daily, Alexander García-Tobar, attackers are using impersonation to get through existing email defenses, CEO and co-founder of Valimail, Domain-based Message Authentication, or DMARC, phishers and other cybercriminals constitute the major source of cyberattacks, phishing attacks continue to persist, Phishing is as much a technical attack as it is a social engineering method, Reporting and Conformance

Some 140,000 more domains are using DMARC records since the start of 2019, though DMARC-based enforcement remains complex to implement.

Phishing is as much a technical attack as it is a social engineering method—for any phishing attempt to be successful, a phishing email must pass through software filters, and be acted upon by the recipient, exposing sensitive data. That may sound like slim odds for success, though the Valimail Spring 2019 Email Fraud Landscape report released Tuesday indicates at least 3.4 billion fake emails are sent each day—making phishing attacks resemble something of a “spray and pray” strategy.

The original specifications for email were written without particular regard to security. While that may have been an acceptable course of action decades ago—when internet use was restricted to government and academic users—deploying a mail server in 2019 without any security protection at all is inadvisable.

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, or DMARC, is an open standard (published as RFC 7489) that can be used to prevent inauthentic email from reaching the inboxes of end users. DMARC is gaining widespread adoption, with Valimail reporting that DMARC is used on “almost 80% of all the inboxes in the world.” A survey of public DNS records revealed nearly 740,000 domains with DMARC records as of May 2019, an increase of 140,000 since the beginning of the year.

DMARC is complex to implement, however, and partial implementations—namely, DMARC records versus DMARC enforcement—can limit the efficacy of these deployments. “For domains that are actually used to send email, it takes a lot of tedious work to figure out which sending services need to be whitelisted. The fear of blocking good (legitimate) email keeps a lot of domains from switching to enforcement, and thus they remain vulnerable to bad (fake) email,” the report states.

A few industries are rising above 20% enforcement rates, with the US federal government leading the way, due largely to mandates requiring the protection. Conversely, the least-protected industry is media organizations.

“It remains clear that fake emails from hackers, phishers and other cybercriminals constitute the major source of cyberattacks,” Alexander García-Tobar, CEO and co-founder of Valimail, said in a press release. “As more companies recognize and respond to email vulnerabilities, we expect to see organizations continue to deploy authentication technologies to protect against untrusted and fraudulent senders. The fact is that too many attackers are using impersonation to get through existing email defenses. A robust approach to sender identification and authentication is needed to make email more trustworthy, once and for all.”

For more, check out “Oh Canada: Why half of phishing attacks target the Great White North,” and “Your data, stolen twice: Pirated phishing kit contains hidden backdoor”

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This one simple thing you can do to avoid being scammed for up to hundreds of thousands $$$ in property transactions

Posted by :Henry On : May 25, 2018
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Category: BUYING SELLING, CONVEYANCING SCAMS, INVOICE SCAMS, LISTS, PROPERTY SCAMS, REAL ESTATE SCAMS, SCAM TEXT & EMAIL MESSAGE EXAMPLES

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Do one very simple thing to avoid losing thousands when you buy property.

MILLIONS of dollars have been lost to scammers intercepting property transactions already this year, but there is some simple thing you can do to protect yourself.

Conveyancing technology experts GlobalX has revealed that many who operate within the industry are unaware that scammers are successfully ripping off buyers already in Australia.

CEO Peter Maloney said millions had been lost in a number of transactions.

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The common rort involves scammers hacking conveyancers’ client lists, impersonating them and emailing their clients to advise them the property trust account details had changed so clients would transfer property purchase funds into a fraudulent account.

Mr Maloney said he was aware of certain instances of money being scammed this way in both South Australia and Western Australia where eight buyers were targeted and lost millions of dollars.

Mr Maloney said if you were paying a $200,000 deposit to buy and house and put it into a scammers account unknowingly it would be almost impossible to trace and or retrieve it.

He said the buyer was not the only one affected as transactions could then fall through and the seller would have to market their home again.

It’s easy to avoid being scammed according to GlobalX CEO Peter Maloney.

But he said there was one very simple thing buyers could do to avoid being caught – make a phone call.

All emails asking for funds to be transferred should be verified with a phone call before any money was released.

“Pick up the phone and ask them,’’ he said.

“It really is that simple’’.

Australian Institute of Conveyancers President Shane Jacob echoed the call for all involved in the property purchase process to be diligent.

“It is critical that buyers and conveyancers become more aware & informed. If you receive an email that you think is suspicious, buyers should be calling their conveyancer to confirm it is legitimate,” Mr Jacob said.It is that simple.

“Scammers are getting smarter, so property buyers and their legal rpeople need to be vigilent in order to protect themselves.”

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Con artists strike it rich in Hong Kong with job fraud and ID theft totalling HK$7.82 million in 2018, or seven times more than all of 2017

Posted by :Henry On : May 22, 2018
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Category: EMPLOYMENT SCAMS, Hong Kong, SCAM TEXT & EMAIL MESSAGE EXAMPLES, SCAMMERS, SENDING MONEY, SOCIAL SITES, VICTIMS

Tags:employment scams in hong kong, how to spot an employment scam, job scammers in hong kong

Desperate jobseekers persuaded to hand over personal details and bank information in fake employment scammers

Hong Kong’s con artists have scammed ­job seekers out of seven times more cash in the first four months of 2018 than they did in the entire year of 2017, police revealed on Monday.

Identity theft and fake job offers drove the rise, with the latest police figures showing 78 Hongkongers losing HK$7.82 million (US$996,000) in 48 reported scams.

That is compared to the HK$1.13 million that 43 vunerable victims lost last year to con artists in 33 cases, covering a variety of scams. Of the HK$7.82 million, HK$7.1 million was lost in loan-related employment fraud, a figure that dwarfs the HK$480,000 con artists raked in using similar schemes in 2017

This year’s biggest loser to date is a 26-year-old woman who was duped of HK$800,000 in a loan-related job scam. She replied to an online job advert in March.

“To secure the position, she provided the interviewer with a copy of her identity card, together with other personal data,” chief inspector Jackie Tam Wing-sze of the force’s commercial crime bureau said.

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The victim was later told HK$780,000 had been paid into her bank account. She was requested to help withdraw the money, with the promise of a HK$13,000 payday afterwards.

Some weeks later, she received a formal request of debt recovery from a bank, and realised the fraudster had stolen her identity to apply for a personal loan amounting to HK$800,000.

Hong Kong woman tricked out of HK$20,000 in online love scam

A 25-year-old woman was conned out of HK$640,000 after she responded to a job advert on the internet in January.

She was lured into applying for loans, and to use her credit cards to buy gold, and was promised HK$74,000 in commission if she did so. According to police, she was told the “company would be responsible for repaying any & all the debts”.

The woman only realised it was a scam after she gave all the money and gold to the conman and then lost contact with him.

Police said they had also observed criminals were more & more using the lure of attractive job offers, such as working as a flight attendant for overseas airlines, to swindle jobseekers.

In November, a 24-year-old woman fell victim when she answered an advert for a supposed vacancy with an overseas airline on a social media platform. In due course she was eventually convinced to part with a total of HK$170,000 as part of the fake recruitment process.

The victim only discovered the scam the following month when she tried to verify her job application.

The woman is the biggest loser of such fraud in recent years, police stated.

Officials attributed the increase in the reports of employment fraud, and the amount of losses this year, to their investigations into a loan-related job scam in which 10 victims lost HK$3.4 million.

Scammers cheat jobseekers out of HK$3 million as cases jump

“Any person could be the victim of employment fraud,” Tam said, adding that con artists would always invent different ways to steal other people’s money.

Increasingly, Tam said, fraudsters were using various scams online and on social media.

A history of Hong Kong scams … and how to avoid becoming another victim

With the approach of the summer holidays, Tam said school leavers and summer jobseekers should be “cautious and on vigilant alert at all times”.

Senior labour officer Yeung chi-kit of the Labour Department said jobseekers should be wary of adverts for well-paid jobs that do not require work experience, or any academic qualifications.

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He said all persons should be cautious if asked to pay deposits, training fees, for goods and services, or asked to provide personal data or credit card, identity card, and bank account details.

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ACCC: Australians were duped over AU$2.1m to Cryptocurrency-related scams in 2017

Posted by :Henry On : May 21, 2018
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Category: ACCC ASIC ATO, Australia, BITCOIN, DIGITAL MONEY, EMAIL FRAUDS, FRAUDS SCAMS THEFT, ID THEFT, IMPERSONATIONS, IMPOSTERS, LIARS, ONLINE FRAUDS & SCAMS, PAYMENT DEMANDS, SCAM TEXT & EMAIL MESSAGE EXAMPLES, STEAL THEFT, VICTIMS

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A detailed report from Australia’s consumer watchdog found many locals got caught up in ‘pyramid’ cryptocurrency schemes last year, hoping to capitalise on the ‘success’ of bitcoin.

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“As the value of actual cryptocurrencies increased, so too did the scam losses in what people thought were real investments,” the report continued. “By the end of the year, reports of losses related to cryptocurrencies exceeded AU$2.1 million but as with other scams, this is likely the very tip of the iceberg.”

According to the ACCC, examples of cryptocurrency scams in 2017 included fake initial coin offerings (ICOs), which purport to be the launch of a new cryptocurrency.

Other scams, the ACCC said, capitalised on the general confusion about how cryptocurrency works and instead of people discovering how to directly buy cryptocurrencies, many found themselves caught up in what were essentially pyramid schemes.

“A number of reports showed that victims entered into cryptocurrency-based scams through friends and family who convinced them they were onto a good thing, a classic element of pyramid schemes,” the watchdog wrote.

“Not all cryptocurrency-related scams involved victims attempting to invest in stocks or initial coin offerings. Many scammers also ask for payment through cryptocurrencies for a variety of scams because it is easier to remain anonymous while receiving payment.”

An example is paying ransomware through bitcoin.

In total, the ACCC reported Australians lost AU$340 million to scammers in 2017, the highest loss since stats were put on record.

More than 200,000 scam reports were submitted to the ACCC, the Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN), and other federal and state-based government agencies in 2017.

Investment scams topped the losses at AU$64 million; while dating and romance scams caused the second greatest losses at AU$42 million.

“Some scams are becoming very sophisticated and hard to spot. Scammers use modern technology like social media to contact and deceive their victims. In the past few years, reports indicate scammers are using aggressive techniques both over the phone and online,” ACCC Deputy Chair Delia Rickard said.

According to the ACCC, Scamwatch received almost 33,000 reports of threat-based impersonation scams in 2017. It said over AU$4.7 million was reported lost and more than 2,800 people gave their personal information to these scammers.

“The ATO will never threaten you with immediate arrest; Telstra will never need to access your computer to ‘fix’ a problem; and Centrelink will never require a fee to pay money it owes you,” Rickard continued. “Finally, none of these organisations will ask you to pay using iTunes gift cards.”

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Watch out: ATO warns against ‘malicious’ new email tax refund scam

Posted by :Henry On : May 21, 2018
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Category: Australia, FRAUDS SCAMS THEFT, IMPOSTERS, LIARS, ONLINE FRAUDS & SCAMS, REFUNDS, SCAM TEXT & EMAIL MESSAGE EXAMPLES, TAX SCAMS

Tags:ato refunds scams, fake tax email scams, tax fraudulent return scams

Scammers are sending fake ATO emails.
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SCAM ALERT! This tax refund phishing scam came through our email today. Don’t click the link. Delete immediately.

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has warned there’s a new scam on the loose and it’s wrecking havoc on people’s computers.

The tax authority says the email scam is disguised as a Tax Refund Notification and aims to trick taxpayers into handing over their bank details by clicking a dodgy link.

“Scammers are sending fake ATO emails asking completion of a ‘tax refund review’ form to receive a refund,” the ATO wrote on its website.

“The form requests online banking credentials, credit card numbers and limits, and personal address information.”

The ATO is advising clients to not click on any links in the email nor save the attachment as it may “download malicious malware onto your computer”.

“Do not disclose the personal information the form is asking for,” they added.

Read more: New missed-call scam is hitting Australia right now

New South Wales police also warned social media users to beware of the scam, with a message on its Facebook page telling people to “delete straight away” if they see the email in their inbox.

The dodgy email isn’t the only ATO scam currently making the rounds. Crafty scammers claiming to be from the ATO are leaving voicemail messages on phones, threatening recipients with arrest if they don’t call back and correct a tax issue.

The ATO issued a recording of the voicemail so people know to be on alert for the fake message.

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“This call is just to inform you that there has been a lawsuit filed against your name concerning a tax evasion and this case is about to get registered in the Commonwealth Courthouse of your territory,” the scammers say in the call. “So before the things go wrong against you or before the police officer from the local police department will approach you and issue a warrant for your arrest, kindly give us a call back on 0283173564. I repeat my telephone number again which is 0283173564. Again this is Jason O’Connor from the Australian Taxation Office. Thank you and you have a wonderful day.”

The ATO is warning recipients to “not return the call” if they receive a voicemail like this.

Watch out for new Telstra phone service provider scam in Queensland Australia

Posted by :Henry On : April 12, 2018
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IF YOU are a Telstra customer and receive an email stating you’re entitled to a refund – delete it immediately.

There have been reports in Qld Australia of an email which claims customers have been charged twice by the phone service provider due to a system error. Sample screen shot telstra scam demand below

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Australian union official seemingly connected with fraudulent Facebook page

Posted by :Henry On : April 11, 2018
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Category: Australia, BLACK PEOPLE, CAUSES BELIEFS, DONATIONS, ONLINE FRAUDS & SCAMS, SCAM TEXT & EMAIL MESSAGE EXAMPLES, SCAMMERS, VIDEOS AUDIOS

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Two National Union of Workers officials in Perth WA have been suspended after it emerged that a fraudulent Black Lives Matter page had an Australia connection.

The National Union of Workers (NUW) has suspended two officials in West Australia after US news outlet CNN claimed that a Facebook page purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties to Australia.

CNN named one of the men as NUW offical Ian Mackay – who is white – and SBS News understands another male from the union was also suspended after the story broke.

The Facebook page titled “Black Lives Matter” had almost 700,000 followers, which was more than twice as many as the official page of Black Lives Matter, an activist movement that campaigns against violence and racism towards black people.

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CNN reported on Monday that the page was connected “to online fundraisers that brought in at least $US100,000 (AUD$129,000) that supposedly went to Black Lives Matter causes in the US. At least some of the money, however, was transferred to Australian bank accounts”.

In a statement to SBS News, NUW national secretary Tim Kennedy confirmed that the union had “launched an investigation into claims made by a CNN report and has suspended the relevant officials pending the outcome of an investigation”.

“The NUW is not involved in and has not authorised any activities with reference to claims made in CNN’s story.”

SBS News has approaced Mr Mackay for comment. He denied running the page when contacted by CNN, but did not provide further comment.

The Facebook page has since been closed down and fundraising campaigns associated with the page were reportedly suspended by PayPal and Patreon. Donorbox and Classy had also removed the campaigns.

“Our objective is to raise awareness about racism, bigotry, police brutality and hate crimes by exposing through social media locally and internationally stories that mainstream media don’t,” a message on the group’s Donorbox page reportedly read.

A spokesperson for Facebook told SBS News that “we investigated this situation as soon as it was brought to our attention, and disabled the page admin for maintaining multiple profiles on the platform”.

“We continue to monitor the situation and will take the necessary action in line with our policies.”

SBS News has also reached out to Black Lives Matter in the US for comment.

It comes the same week as Mark Zuckerberg is set to appear before US politicians, where he will face a grilling about data that was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.

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Yet another Cunning Netflix Phish That Just will not Die

Posted by :Henry On : November 9, 2017
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Category: PHISHING SCAMS, SCAM TEXT & EMAIL MESSAGE EXAMPLES, Uncategorized

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The email hits your inbox with an urgent warning: Your Netflix account has been suspended, due to a problem with your billing information. It offers a link, which takes you to what looks very much like a Netflix landing page. It’s not. Instead, it’s a phishing scam that collects extensive personal data on victims. But as with all of the most pernicious phishes, the problem with the Netflix phish isn’t just its convincing look—it’s that whoever’s behind it has found new ways to bypass spam filters over and over again.

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While the Netflix phish has garnered recent headlines, it dates back at least to January, when threat researchers at the security firm FireEye first detected it. It prompts victims to type in their username and password, and then presents a form to update their billing information (things like full name, date of birth, address, and phone number). After that, another form asks them to validate their payment method by entering their credit card info. Some versions of the phish even ask for a Social Security number.

Deep Deception

As with many social engineering attacks, its outward simplicity helps ensnare potential victims. Underneath that exterior, though, researchers who have tracked the campaign say that it uses a clever combination of defense measures to make it harder for spam filters, antivirus programs, and phishing scanners to flag.

Richard Hummel, the manager of technical analysis at FireEye, says that he still sees attackers using some of the same subject lines for Netflix phishing emails that they did almost a year ago. “They’re not even varying their tactics all that much,” he says. “What they’re doing is working, it’s successful. Netflix is still one of the common themes that’s used for credential theft. It’s definitely something that’s still ongoing—steady and recurring.”

While the Netflix phish is outwardly straightforward, it does include a lot of clever touches. It replicates a lot the HTML Netflix uses on its actual website, to make the fake pages look as genuine as possible. The login pages even include autofilling backsplashes that promote Netflix original content. The phishing emails also use a template system, to personalize the messages by autofilling each victim’s name at the beginning.

The evasive maneuvers go even deeper. Some versions of the campaign encrypt user-side HTML in the phishing pages, so scanners can’t inspect the code for malicious components. The phishing pages also have a defense in place where they won’t load for IP addresses that trace back to known internet security monitoring groups, like Google, or the anti-phishing initiative PhishTank. All of this makes it easier for phishers to run the Netflix scam again and again, because their infrastructure hasn’t been flagged on security and spam blacklists.

Most importantly, the Netflix phishers use a well-known technique of compromising legitimate web accounts or web servers, and hosting their phishing pages off of those services. By hosting the pages on sites that have been around for a while and weren’t previously malicious, the attackers buy time on URLs that have credibility (known online as a good reputation score) and won’t be flagged by security scanners. Analysts at the email scanning and security group MailGuard found that in this go-around the Netflix phishers have been using compromised WordPress blogs to host their malicious pages.

This type of approach can be used to launch phishing attacks based off of all different brands and services. Aaron Higbee, CTO of the phishing defense firm PhishMe, says the company has tracked the same types of phishing campaign infrastructure to impersonate brands like Chase, Comcast, TD Bank, and Wells Fargo. And he notes that the system can perpetuate itself. Some of the stolen credentials attackers get out of the scam may include reused credentials for accounts and web servers that the phishers can then compromise and use to launch more attacks.

Safety Steps

The good news is that users can protect themselves by following the standard advice about phishing. To confirm who really sent an email, click on the downward arrow next to the sender’s name in Gmail. It’ll expand to show the full info. Hover over any links to confirm that they lead to the URLs they claim. Make account changes by navigating, on your own, to a site itself, and log in there instead of going through an email link. Don’t reuse passwords. And view any emails that push you to act right away with suspicion.

“Unfortunately, these scams are common on the internet and target popular brands such as Netflix and other companies with large customer bases to lure users into giving out personal information,” Netflix said in a statement.

There’s a lot at stake. Researchers say that the Netflix phishers also likely sell the victim data they collect to dark-web processors looking for bulk data, credit card numbers, and even just active Netflix accounts that they can resell for a few dollars.

“There are a number of motives here,” Higbee says. “And I know I’m going to sound like a broken record, but if your email address password is the same as your entertainment passwords you’re really setting yourself up for disaster. Your email address password needs to be different even if you don’t vary all your passwords. That alone will prevent a lot of damage.”

You might as well commit those tips to memory—especially with an attack like the Netflix phish that’s been around for months, and isn’t slowing down.

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COMMONWEALTH BANK SLANT ON SMS & EMAIL SCAMS AUSTRALIA

Posted by :Henry On : October 19, 2017
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Category: BANKS MONEY LENDERS, PHISHING SCAMS, SCAM TEXT & EMAIL MESSAGE EXAMPLES, SMISHING SCAMS, VISHING SCAMS

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Hoax alert

From time to time, we send emails and text messages (SMS) to our customers to update them with important information. Sometimes, fraudsters may send you “hoax” messages that appear to come from us, in order to trick you into revealing sensitive information. That’s why it’s important to remember that we will never send you a message asking you to confirm, update or disclose your personal or banking information. To help keep your account and personal information safe, here are some examples of hoax email/SMS, and what you should do if you receive one.

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How to spot a scam

SMiShing

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Pronounced ‘smishing’, they are SMS messages that attempt to direct you (via a link) to a fraudulent website and request you to input your personal information. These messages typically include an urgent call to action – such as to re-verify or unfreeze an account that is ‘suspended’ or set to ‘expire’ or to claim a tax refund. SMiShing campaigns targeted at our customers would typically link to a site that asks for your client number, NetBank password, card number or PIN. The hoax SMS may try to pass itself off as a legitimate message from the bank by including our contact number, and may also spoof (fake) our sender label/ID so that the ‘from’ field reads ‘CommBank’ or ‘NetBank’.

Tips to avoid SMS scams:

  • Commonwealth Bank will never send an SMS that asks you to confirm, update or disclose personal or banking information, and most financial institutions follow the same practice. Never click on a link provided in such an SMS.
  • Instructions on how to send these messages to Commonwealth Bank for further investigation is listed below.

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Phishing

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Pronounced ‘fishing’, emails are used by fraudsters to trick people into entering their personal information, such as bank account details, on a website controlled or monitored by the attacker. The fraudster can then use this information for illegal purposes, such as transferring funds or purchasing goods. Phishing emails are often designed to imitate your most trusted service providers – a bank, cloud service provider or other financial institution, and may include links to a convincing replica home page.

Tips to avoid email scams:

  • We will never send messages via email that ask you to confirm, update or disclose personal or banking information, and most financial institutions follow the same practice.
  • Hard as they might try, these emails don’t always get the branding and design of your service provider quite right. If you’re in any way unsure about a message that purports to be from an organisation you transact with, compare it to previous correspondence from the same organisation.
  • If you’re still unsure, contact the organisation directly using a phone number from their website (not from the email) before you reply.
  • Never open an attachment that you’re unsure about as it may contain malicious software designed to infect your computer.
  • You can typically check that links in emails are legitimate by ‘hovering’ your mouse over the link to view the destination URL (web address), without risking having to click it. On your smartphone, you need to tap and hold on the link and wait for the URL to appear.
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Other scams

Fraudsters can get very inventive with the money-making schemes. Some will claim to be a government official that needs help to distribute millions of dollars out of the country and ask for your bank account details. Others will claim you have won a foreign lottery and request a smaller payment from you to cover costs.

Other fraudsters will say they need you to provide your bank account details to a prospective employer prior to contracts of employment being signed and then ask you to facilitate a transfer of funds from their bank account to an account located overseas.

Tips to avoid these scams:

  • If an offer seems too good to be true, then it probably is.
  • For further information on how to detect phishing, try our Tips to stay safe when using email.
  • Be aware of other scams, such as spam e-mails, chain letters and persons purporting to be representatives of government departments, financial institutions or other businesses.
  • Do not give or send your name, bank account details, copies of your passport, birth certificate or any other personal details to anyone other than for legitimate purposes.
  • Be suspicious of any correspondence received from overseas where you have been advised to forward large sums of money or that you have won a prize.

If you receive a scam or hoax email/SMS:

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  • Commonwealth Bank works closely with law enforcement and other authorities to shut down fake/malicious websites as quickly as possible. You can help stop these scams by sending a sample of any hoax email or SMS you receive to the bank at [email protected]. You will receive a confirmation that we have received your email.
  • If possible, please send the hoax email as an attachment, and avoid using the ‘forward’ feature in your email software. If your email program does not support attachments and you have to use the “forward” feature, please ensure you refuse any prompts to open attachments or download pictures and files.
  • Please send any hoax SMS as an attachment by taking a screenshot of the message and attaching it to your email.
  • After sending a sample of a scam email to [email protected], you should delete the email or SMS immediately from your inbox and from your deleted items folder.
  • You should never click on a suspicious link or provide any information requested by a phishing email or SMS.
  • If you have provided your confidential information after receiving a suspicious email or SMS, please call 13 2221 immediately.

Other banks follow similar advice & guidance patterns so if you get any similar messages etc from other banks take the same measures as outlined herein to play it safe

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