The latest attacks I've seen include a phone number instead of a URL. The first one I got was very convincing, particularly if you skim emails from banks, etc. It had a 1-888 number to call. It told me my account had some suspicious activity (from a bank that has put me on hold for some of my own online activity) at a time I was traveling. It was about 99% convincing. I went to the bank's site and used *that* tollfree number to confirm it was bogus.
I then called the 888 number just to see what it was, and it was a very convincing recording asking me to enter my 16-digit credit card number. It sounded very much like my actual bank.
I've now received at least a dozen of these from supposedly different banks, so it appears to be on the rise.
Not a serious comment. As a joke, lame? Perhaps. As something that really happened (because yes this really DID happen to me)? Everyone around here calls it just plain Dick's. And I didn't google. I typed in the URL, wasn't this thread about typing URLs directly?
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The latest attacks I've seen include a phone number instead of a URL. The first one I got was very convincing, particularly if you skim emails from banks, etc. It had a 1-888 number to call. It told me my account had some suspicious activity (from a bank that has put me on hold for some of my own online activity) at a time I was traveling. It was about 99% convincing. I went to the bank's site and used *that* tollfree number to confirm it was bogus.
I then called the 888 number just to see what it was, and it was a very convincing recording asking me to enter my 16-digit credit card number. It sounded very much like my actual bank.
I've now received at least a dozen of these from supposedly different banks, so it appears to be on the rise.
Not a serious comment. As a joke, lame? Perhaps. As something that really happened (because yes this really DID happen to me)? Everyone around here calls it just plain Dick's. And I didn't google. I typed in the URL, wasn't this thread about typing URLs directly?
Just typing the name of the company did NOT work so great for me when looking up Dick's (Sporting Goods) from work.