No doubt, phishing is the number one way \t\tcriminals and miscreant steal identities, credit card numbers, bank \t\taccount passwords and so on. While most people would guess hacking is \t\tthe way most people are ripped off, it’s simply not true. Phishing \t\temails and sites attmept to trick the user into voluntarily entering \t\ttheir personal information on a web site that looks exactly like the \t\ttarget site. If you get an email from American National Bank asking you \t\tto change your password for “security reason” and you click a link in \t\tthat email and end up on a site that looks exactly like American \t\tNational Bank, you might be inclined to type in all sorts of personal \t\tdata, which then goes directly to the criminals’ database. If you fall \t\tfor something like this, you could find your credit cards charged to the \t\tmax, your back account swiftly emptied, and maybe even your identity \t\tstolen – if this happens you’re in a real mess.<\/p>\n
Banks, credit card companies, financial \t\tinstitutions, and other sites that store confidential information don’t \t\tsent out emails with links asking you to click the link and change you \t\tpassword for security reasons. They don’t send out emails with the \t\tsalutation “Dear valued customer” or “Dear customer”. By now, most of \t\tyou know that, but many do not.<\/p>\n
All major current version browsers included good anti-phishing protection. So be sure you use the most current version of your favorite browser.<\/p>\n
The Web is a dangerous place if you don’t \t\thave a clue what you’re doing. But you all do, right? There are two \t\tthings, more than any thing else, that you need to keep yourself safe. \t\tThey aren’t software programs and they’re free. You need to use common \t\tsense and you need information so you’re always aware of new methods \t\tcriminals are using to scam people. We try to provide you information, \t\tand there are other sites across the Web that provide updated \t\tinformation on new schemes, scams and trickery – all you need to provide \t\tis the common sense.<\/p>\n
Today’s site pick \u00a0is called PhishTank<\/a> – a rather nice pun and a funny \t\tname for a site that serves a serious purpose. Helping you check out a \t\tsite to learn if it’s a phishing site or noted scam site. We can tell \t\tyou that criminals, scammers and phishers use all the tools at their \t\tdisposal to keep one step ahead of you. It’s only right that you use \t\tevery tool at your disposal to keep one step ahead of them.<\/p>\n Here’s how PhishTank’s creators describe \t\ttheir site:<\/p>\n “PhishTank is a collaborative clearing \t\thouse for data and information about phishing on the Internet. Also, \t\tPhishTank provides an open API for developers and researchers to \t\tintegrate anti-phishing data into their applications at no charge.”<\/em><\/p>\n Our Site of the Week<\/a> this week is a serious site dealing with a very \t\tserious problem – phishing. It’s another tool you have at your disposal \t\tthat can help you learn more about phishing and how to protect yourself \t\tand your assets from the criminals and miscreants who seem to lurking \t\teverywhere on the Web these days.<\/p>\n Please take a few moments to \t\tvisit our site pick: PhishTank<\/a>. \t\tWe think you’ll find it a valuable resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No doubt, phishing is the number one way criminals and miscreant steal identities, credit card numbers, bank account passwords and so on. While most people would guess hacking is the way most people are ripped off, it’s simply not true. Phishing emails and sites attmept to trick the user into voluntarily entering their personal information on a web\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[1222,194,589],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}