Obama pays your bills’ scam claims more victims
A multistate identity theft scam that claims President Barack Obama will pay your utility bills appears to have widened.
According to MSNBC.com, more than 2,000 customers in Tampa, Fla., fell for the fake offer last week.
The scheme was first reported in May, when Dallas-based Atmos Energy warned its 3 million customers in 12 states that scammers had been asking for Social Security numbers to enroll in the faux federal program. According to the pitch—distributed via email, Facebook, text message, phone and, in some cases, door-to-door sales—the government would pay a month of energy costs through credits offered by the Obama administration.
Obama pays your bills’ scam claims more victims
scam, phishing, identity theft, spam
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Monday, July 9, 2012
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Gmail also hit by e-mail phishing scheme
CNET News
by Don Reisinger
Hotmail users aren't the only ones who've been hit by a phishing scheme over the past week. Google told BBC News on Tuesday that Gmail users have also been affected by the hackers who posted passwords online.
The problem is far more widespread than was disclosed on Monday, possibly affecting Yahoo and AOL e-mail accounts as well, according to BBC News.
Google described the issue as an "industrywide phishing scheme." BBC News said it has seen two lists posted online with "more than 30,000 names and passwords" from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, and other service providers.
"We recently became aware of an industrywide phishing scheme through which hackers gained user credentials for Web-based mail accounts including Gmail accounts," a Google representative told me in an e-mail.
The representative said that Google immediately "forced passwords resets on the affected accounts."
In an e-mail to CNET, a Google representative said that the company had to reset the passwords on fewer than 500 Gmail accounts so far. However, that figure could change.
Despite Google's and Microsoft's awareness of the problem, it doesn't seem that users are out of the woods just yet. Google's representative told CNET that it will continue to force password resets on any newly affected user accounts.
Like Microsoft, Google was quick to point out to the BBC that the phishing scheme was a "scam to get users to give away their personal information to hackers" and not an internal security issue. It didn't say how users fell victim to the scheme.
Google's admission that Gmail users were affected by the phishing scheme comes on the heels of Microsoft acknowledging that over 10,000 Live Hotmail accounts were compromised by the scam. The passwords apparently first hit the Internet on October 1.
CNET News Article
by Don Reisinger
Hotmail users aren't the only ones who've been hit by a phishing scheme over the past week. Google told BBC News on Tuesday that Gmail users have also been affected by the hackers who posted passwords online.
The problem is far more widespread than was disclosed on Monday, possibly affecting Yahoo and AOL e-mail accounts as well, according to BBC News.
Google described the issue as an "industrywide phishing scheme." BBC News said it has seen two lists posted online with "more than 30,000 names and passwords" from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, and other service providers.
"We recently became aware of an industrywide phishing scheme through which hackers gained user credentials for Web-based mail accounts including Gmail accounts," a Google representative told me in an e-mail.
The representative said that Google immediately "forced passwords resets on the affected accounts."
In an e-mail to CNET, a Google representative said that the company had to reset the passwords on fewer than 500 Gmail accounts so far. However, that figure could change.
Despite Google's and Microsoft's awareness of the problem, it doesn't seem that users are out of the woods just yet. Google's representative told CNET that it will continue to force password resets on any newly affected user accounts.
Like Microsoft, Google was quick to point out to the BBC that the phishing scheme was a "scam to get users to give away their personal information to hackers" and not an internal security issue. It didn't say how users fell victim to the scheme.
Google's admission that Gmail users were affected by the phishing scheme comes on the heels of Microsoft acknowledging that over 10,000 Live Hotmail accounts were compromised by the scam. The passwords apparently first hit the Internet on October 1.
CNET News Article
scam, spam, phishing, identity theft
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
VETERAN WELFARE SCHEME BENEFICIARY
VETERAN WELFARE SCHEME BENEFICIARY
From: "VETERAN WELFARE SCHEME" nwhitty@fuse.net
The U.N inconjuction with the Navy Veterans Association (NVA) Worldwide hereby approve the sum of $400,000 in the ongoing Resettlement & Welfare Scheme for veterans/beneficiary. As a beneficiary you are advised to contact the cordinator with the info
Full names,Address,Phonenumber,Service/Valid I.D
Email : n.v.a_resettlementdesk@live.com
Hugh Milroy,
Chief Executive,
Veterans Aid.
scam, spam, Identity Theft, Phishing
From: "VETERAN WELFARE SCHEME" nwhitty@fuse.net
The U.N inconjuction with the Navy Veterans Association (NVA) Worldwide hereby approve the sum of $400,000 in the ongoing Resettlement & Welfare Scheme for veterans/beneficiary. As a beneficiary you are advised to contact the cordinator with the info
Full names,Address,Phonenumber,Service/Valid I.D
Email : n.v.a_resettlementdesk@live.com
Hugh Milroy,
Chief Executive,
Veterans Aid.
scam, spam, Identity Theft, Phishing
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