If PayPal or Gmail emails you and ask you to give your username and password and states that if you don't, your account will be deleted-- more than likely you are being phished and it is a SCAM.
This happened to about 30,00 Gmail accounts. User names and passwords were acquired by hackers and posted online.
Hotmail, some Yahoo and AOL accounts were compromised as well.
The BBC UK reported:
"Phishing involves using fake websites to lure people into revealing data such as bank account details or login names.
Phishing attacks are very subtle these days," she said. 'People do all kinds of tricky things.'
Fake websites, which ask for a users login details, can be made to look like those of reputable companies.
This should be a wake-up call to Google and Microsoft to educate their users,"
See we're a nice blog doing PSAs... we're not always bitchy!!
Read more of my blog by clicking the title or subject listings on the right.
Email friends of my postings with the EMAIL icon at the bottom of each post.
And as always, feel free to comment.
Member of the Boxxet Network of Blogs, Videos and Photos
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment