Internet: Jungle of the new millennium
Phishing, Pharming, Vishing, parcelling and online scams pitfalls are many.
New scammers are not on the street would address most of their victims, are no longer the usual "package" but acting Online, promising discounts and low prices for all kinds of objects, or stealing sensitive data on current accounts and then "Clear" literally.
Thousands each year are victims of this type of scam
now analyzed for the various scams and how to avoid
Phishing When comes the phishing e-mail you need to know that the purpose of crook is to lead us into error into believing that the link in this email will lead to our bank, so as to detect all of our sensitive data in order to use our account fraudulently and then clean it up for everyone. To unmask the trick is to simply place the mouse on the address of the bank to which the message invites us to bring us. Positioning address, without clicking, we could see the navigation bar (on every browser) the name of the address to which the link will lead us. Looking carefully at that address does not match at all as we realize that our bank has succeeded in exposing the phishing, without lapsing into his net. However it should be noted how the recent news stories it is apparent a certain evolution of phishing techniques: in If Unicredit bank, there was only one "s" of the difference between the actual site of the bank and cloned by the phisher. In addition, the site owl was in all respects similar to the original. What to do in these cases? A telefonatina not hurt
certainly, after you spend a few cents to save thousands and thousands.
Pharming: It consists of a proper handling of the directions towards which information travels on the web addresses to which you head. In other words: the user types the address of a site, eg. www.banca&banche.it. In that domain name corresponds to an address IP consists of a numerical code consists of twelve digits, eg 000.000.000.000. At a time when we type the name of a site in the URL bar, after you type "search" to send information concerning the site we want to go to a server, is precisely the one that hosts the site. The web server decodes the address we typed in the numeric IP address belonging to the site. With pharming happens instead of this correspondence between the domain name of the site and its IP address to be interrupted in the domain name shown is associated with a new IP address for the site created by pharmers. In essence, the Pharming translates into an attack on the DNS server that handles directions (domain name system), so as to route the connection to the site wanted, regardless of the will of the user and avoiding any contact with the site actually cloned.
Vishing: This is the Vishing, or attempting to steal electronic data (phishing) through the systems of VoIP (ie the phone via the web, which stands for Voice over IP). Compared to phishing techniques change, but not the purpose: steal user data. The principle is to send, as a kind of spam, many calls to the contact number of pre-recorded messages pretending Voip phantom divisions credit card fraud looking for activation codes unlikely to avert danger, please call to VoIP call center insidious.
parcelling: The alarm was triggered in Britain but it is likely that is about to cross the English Channel, so every precaution in this respect is always desirable. This is the "parcelling" a new web scam where criminals are in the mailboxes of users as a harmless and praiseworthy organization of voluntary non-profit. The modus operandi of the criminals would be as follows: after waiting to capture the data bank of users through the usual practice
of phishing criminals to make purchases on-line asking users to host the products purchased at their home, claiming the excuse of not having enough storage to take care of the property.
So deceive their victims by pretending that the goods are hosting at their home consists of products for an unspecified orphanage in Africa. After a few days go to the home, collecting their parcels, and disappear.
online scams E-commerce: First check that the sites in question using security protocols that can be identified the user. The most common is the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) : generally during the transaction, the bottom right corner of the window, an icon appears with a padlock which means that at that moment the connection is secure
- Do not provide too much personal information in particular those relating to their account, because the transaction is successful only need the credit card number and expiry date
- Make use, wherever possible, solutions to home banking that banks make available to control - almost in real time - your bank statement, in order to lock in a timely manner, if the paper you deny the charges
- Check your statements carefully pointing out immediately, the company issuing the card, each transaction is unknown.
- Compare prices, if items are sold at low prices is certainly a scam or non-original items, in the case of E-Bay each user has a separate story so if the purchase went well does not mean that a the other will also monitor feedback is not enough because many fraudsters steal identity information first and then make false purchases to your account and issue positive feedback so as to deceive buyers, it's a good habit to check the network on various search engines the name of the seller, because if someone has been defrauded will certainly have left the network
some positive comment, like the famous case in Italy by Matteo Aldrovandi
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