Posts Tagged with ‘phishing’

I am sure that I will not exaggerate if I say every internet user is more than tired of getting constant notifications of winning a few thousand dollars or even a nice million in an email lottery. I remember first time I received such a notification myself (stating that I won 200 thousand dollars in Yahoo! Mail lottery) - my heart jumped and I started fantasizing about how exactly I could invest this money not to have to continue with [...]

Today there’s a very interesting story on The New Your Times blog that grabbed my attention because of its title - “Rumor Control: Why I Can’t Put “Tibet” in My Hotmail Address”. In the article David Gallagher references a reader who attempted to register an email address containing the word “Tibet” in it (it has something to do with his book about Tibet) on Hotmail but failed because the ID chosen contained “a word or phrase that is not allowed”.
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From June 2004 to May 2005, an estimated 73 million US adults said they definitely, or think, received an average of more than 50 phishing e-mails in the past year. According to the FTC, email has quickly become the number one method of contact for scams. In August 2007 alone, PhishTank verified almost 9,000 phishing scams out of 12,490 submitted.
For these reasons and more three major websites have announced a "collaborative effort to better protect consumers against fraudulent e-mails and [...]