Warning! Phishing....

These days everyone is talking about phishing - as a rule, this e-mail messages purporting to be from your bank or an online service, the services which you can use, but in fact the sole purpose of these (note - high quality) fakes - this is to lure you passwords or credit card data that you enter at a certain suspicious site.

This does not happen as long as your email are kept confidential, but as soon as you receive your first spam, so we can assume that your email is no secret to anyone, and the spammer could easily sell it to another, and another third, etc. and sooner or later you will receive a letter from phishing. We collected a few dozen of these letters and decided to write this little story that you know what these letters look like and how to spot a fake.

All messages from online services where you are asked to enter your login (username) and password should be treated as suspicious and are worth comparing with the checklist given below.


1. Some phishing emails contain text instead of the picture of the text that they do not recognize a spam filters. In the other, also to deceive the filters, inserted into the text the same color as the background. You can press Ctrl + A (or use select all) in your email client to see if there is a hidden message in the text and the text of it at all. If you can not select individual words in the text, so text is not written, and drawn what normal life almost never do. And if the letter can be seen hidden text, usually unrelated to the subject of the message, then it is a sure sign that the forged letter.[/LIST]

2. Most phishing emails contain a link which at first glance appears to be completely legal, but in reality it is not. The link text says one thing, but hidden under the text, this link takes you to a completely different page. Point your mouse over the link and see what is displayed in the status bar of your mail client, there must be visible to the real site address. If two of these links do not match (or it is not the address that you know exactly) at least one point (www.1-paypal.com not the same thing www.paypal.com), then in no case not open this link. Sometimes phishing emails contain links and genuine, but if you are in doubt at least one of them, do not open either one. It would be better to go to the site of the service by typing its official address in the browser address bar rather than clicking on links in e-mail.

3. Most phishing e-mails offering you tell someone your password, this is often preceded by the ominous warnings that your account (or other data) in this service under threat. In these letters, use real images and logos are eBay, PayPal, CitiBank, and other services, under which forged the letter. All these warnings and believable appearance does not mean that the letter now.

4. Fake servers on which you get through phishing emails, no way can verify the authenticity of the data you entered. So if you got on a suspicious site (due to the fact that I missed a deaf ear to our warnings, or because the letter looked well, a hair's breadth as now), then you can try a completely "left" information. If the site will treat it normally, then something is wrong. But if you said that you've entered an incorrect username or password, this does not mean that the site currently.

Warning:Do not enter sensitive data in any form if the connection to the site is not encrypted on the standard SSL (SSL evidence of the fact that the address into your browser starts with https: / / instead of http://).
Important:Never open links in email messages, if they lead to password-protected services in which you have accounts (banks, mail and everything else where you want to enter a user name and password)
Important:Always log on important sites or a link from your bookmarks, or typing the address manually. And after the entrance, make sure that the address is still correct.

In recent months we have collected phishing emails. there by the different addresses and mixed statistics. Please note that the following banks and sites - only victims liars, and made the list only because their message is often tampered with, blaming them for it is impossible. Always carefully read the message, which came seemingly from your bank's services to any of them you may enjoy.

PayPal 56%
Washington Mutual 20%
eBay 9%
Citi Group 3%
MBNA American Bank 3%
SunTrust 3%

 

Thanks for the information....internet is not safe place