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Voice Phishing Hits PayPal
Chai Vanilla writes "The latest social engineering phishing attack is now using phones instead of fake web sites. Identity thieves have spammed fake PayPal account compromise warnings to lure users into dialing a phone number and giving up credit card information. Unlike normal phishing e-mails, there is no URL or response address. Instead, the e-mail urges the recipient to call a phone number and verify account details."
Where is Home Land Security when you need them?
imagine how much there is the tapping into privacy and the communication lines and methods of such by government authority, yet tracing this crap seems to be beyond them and their ability to do.
makes you wonder why we are paying taxes.
maybe its a matter of paying them to invade your pricacy and insure they will not protect you from individuals in other countries scamming you, or even from scammers in your own country..
this is fucking absolute god damn crap that I even see the large amount of this crap in my email acounts.
It says a whole hell of a lot about the US governments incompentancy at protecting its tax paying citizens.
It totally amazes me that an ISP provider can't even filter out fraudulent email against itself and its customers. You'd think they of all parties would know when they themselves send out an account related email vs. a scam.
It seems to be very clear, the facts.... nobody really cares whether you get screwed or not.... including the government you pay to protect you.