Showing posts with label Phishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phishing. Show all posts

Friday, September 10, 2010

Detect Phishing Emails With These Online Apps

Email Phishing


While cleaning out my phishing email address, I came across several emails that were apparently from the FBI.

Screenshot. Email from the FBI.

While they all appear to be from the same user, a robertmueller at fbi.gov, one of these emails came from someone on the Villanova campus. Apparently the sender forgot to modify one of the fields in their bulk email spamming software.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Identify Phishing And Spam Email Easily And Quickly

So you just received an urgent email telling you that you need to verify your Chase Account information. 

Is it a legitimate request or is it an online phishing scammer trying to gain access to your online account information? 

Is there a definitive method that you can use to distinguish legitimate email requests from online phishing scams?

Take a peek at this (simply click on a photo to expand it):

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Phishing With Chase As The Lure

This is a post I made back at the turn of the year, just prior to the Christmas holidays.

At the time, I had received several emails from… an organization that called itself Chase asking me to update my online credentials on their site.