The U.S. continues to be the top hosting country for phishing attacks by a considerable margin for the eighth consecutive month; in June, the U.S. hosted 63% of the phishing attacks identified by RSA.
Australia and Canada remained as top hosting countries while South Korea, which has been one of the top three hosts for several months, dropped to the seventh position, hosting just 3.5 percent of attacks in June.
More interesting data: Cybercriminals Widely Using Public Social Networks to Give Command and Control Orders to Banking Trojans.
The Australian Competition & Consumers Commission (ACCC) released statistics showing that people reported 550 online dating scams in 2009.
With free dating sites, it is estimated that at least 10 percent of new accounts created each day are from scammers.
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Source: RSA Anti-fraud Command Center
Spam is another word for unsolicited junk email. Spam is sent by some individual or company to e-mail inboxes, advertising everything from pornography and phoney charity scams to dodgy get-rich-quick schemes and free websites.
The New Zealand Police has urged its citizens to apply the following formula to prevent being scammed. Whenever you are solicited by a request online to reveal any personal or financial details, imagine the same thing being asked of you by a stranger on the street. Would you reveal it to him?
Then there is no reason to treat the online request differently.
These days I have received scam emails to my free email account. I want to share it and warn people about it:
After going through your information over the internet i decided to contact you for friendship and assistance for distribution of my inheritance towards charity. My name is Jenny Lee; I am a dying woman who has decided to donate what I have for the good work of charity. I am 60 years old and I was diagnosed for breast cancer for about 2 years now.
And begin with a “good” intentions and a sad story…mmm could you believe it?
If the email purports to be a legitimate charity or organization then always check the charity's contact details on the web (never rely on the email details) and contact them directly if you wish to make a donation. Even, bad people use Haiti earthquake like a hook to ask for financial "help" . It is sad how they take advantage of this kind of situation.
Congrats.,confirm receipt $50,000 USD by sending your Name, Address ,Age, Sex,Phone Number, Etc
Be very CAREFUL with anybody or email promising you a lot of FREE MONEY. Besides, If someone require your information asap, is pressurizing and counting on you to make a hasty decision. Don’t do it, any decision take it with cool mind.
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Worldwide Donation Program "helping one to help others...." ah? Do u think is possible?
I have been directed to inform you that you have been chosen for a cash grant of 1,000,000.00usd (1million) by the board of trustees of the above stated non-governmental aid organisation.
Your grant number is B01-0147. Contact Rev.dr seun razaq via telephone +2348051809752 email rev.srazaq@hotmail.com, and provide these details: 1).Full name. 2).Address 3).Telephone number.
[Cell preferably] (4).Occupation. Regards. Adolfo Pepe
Nothing is for free…Everyone can create a website, is you want to confirm, do it through real authorities and don’t click on any link, go to independents resources to know about the company or offer.
Now these messages also come by phone, fax, or email.
My name is Mr.Michal Koko , what I have that may be of interest to you is a business proposal that will benefit you.I work with the Royal Bank of Scotland here in Madrid Spain. The main reason I am writing to you is based on a Corporate Bank account that has been lying dormant for some years now, it was owned by a late Canadian industrialist.Due to my investigations, I found out that she died on 22nd of September,2001 from injuries sustained from an auto crash in venezuela, with no child, next of kin or relative.
more movie story...to ask for personal information and bank account...
Once this is done, we will give a certain percentage of the funds to you and keep the rest for ourselves. I will inform you more on how to get the account transferred to you upon your response by email.I would want you to have it in mind that this project is 100% risk free.
Again a dramatic story to collaborate with them…well don’t reply and don’t fall in their game. You should think how is the real world, if something like that happens…what do you do in their position, trust in a stranger, whose email address you found in a social networking website?
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"Online enticement of children for sexual acts has increased 714% since 1998." The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
"Seventy-three percent of American teens aged 12 to 17 now use social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, up from 55 percent two years ago" Federal Trade Commission
The latest statistics should alert us about the security problems online with a high vulnerability group, kids and teenagers. For parents the control becomes difficult in the cyberspace because the long time spend on internet, webcams, emails, social networking websites, online games and more tools.
Here are some simple tips to decrease the risk, which are suggested by US-CERT:
In addition to limiting functionality within your browser, avoid letting your browser remember passwords and other personal information.
Internet is a amazing resource for academic and entertainment purposes. But it also represents threats, specially for kids. Children still need advice, guidance, and protection; it doesn't matter that their advanced knowledge in computers over parents, be aware and inform them about the risk and good habits to use online.
The more information malicious people have about you, the easier it is for them to take advantage of you. Almost all our information is on internet, and with the new boom of social networks websites we are publishing information about our friends, location, hobbies, all about our daily life.
But when people reveal personal information, they don’t take the same cautions as they would when meeting someone in person, because:
Predators may form relationships online and then convince unsuspecting individuals to meet them in person, case of a Girl with just 17 years old in US that was killed by a predator who said be a teenager. Also attackers can distribute malicious code or execute a social engineering attack to get personal or financial data.
What can you do to protect yourself?
Limit the amount of personal information you post Only post information you are comfortable with strangers seeing. When you post information, you can retract it, in spite that you delete it...may still exist in the servers. DO NOT publish personal data such as address or routine activities.
Be skeptical Be careful and don’t believe everything you read or people share, remember internet give the sense of safety and sometimes dangerous anonymous.
Keep a "private" email address which you share only with close friends and family. Never use this private email address on any site. Jmail by www.spamjadoo.com is recommended and provides you privacy.
Check privacy policies to restrict access to only certain people or others preferential settings. Consider limit the people who are allowed to contact you on these sites.
Use strong passwords Don’t use an obvious password or easily to guess, people can pretend be you.
Don't post your email address in "plain" form anywhere on the Web. Instead, you can disguise your email address by writing it in a convoluted way so that humans can still read it, but (spammers machine) bots can't. For example, instead of writing "john@example.com", use "john AT example DOT com"
Remember always that the internet is a public resource.
People is spending more time online for business or personal entertainment. But how much time are you spending daily? According to Industry estimates, over $25 billion are lost per year in just the time spent by users to delete spam. At least 70% of all emails are spam, and the percentage shoots up at times to over 90%.
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