Re: Voice phishing

2006-06-30 Thread Stefan Kelm 
 Hi-tech fraudsters have begun using recorded telephone messages in a bid
 to trick users into handing over confidential account information. The
 tactic has been adopted as a variant of recently detected phishing
 attacks targeting customers of the Santa Barbara Bank  Trust.

Cloudmark had a similar press release a while ago:

http://www.cloudmark.com/press/releases/?release=2006-04-25-2

Cheers,

Stefan.


Stefan Kelm
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Voice phishing

2006-06-29 Thread Jason Holt 


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/26/voice_phishing/

Hi-tech fraudsters have begun using recorded telephone messages in a bid to 
trick users into handing over confidential account information. The tactic has 
been adopted as a variant of recently detected phishing attacks targeting 
customers of the Santa Barbara Bank  Trust.

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