Yes, after the phishing e-mail, comes the phone phishing
It is certainly not new, but today when I heard my mother talking on the phone with a alleged "employee" of a few banking group, is not it took me long to connect the two. The Phishing is the kind of attack that seeks to obtain sensitive data such as pin codes , and password, especially , bank . Find widely distributed through the mail, but being a mass phenomenon can be easily identified (although many people remain duped) .
For the most recognizable when:
- you get 10 e-mail from 10 different banks that indicate how "their client"
- you get an e-mail to an e-mail that you never provided the company (or bank) in question.
- you get e-mail full of errors and bogus addresses (such as Banca Intesa written with the lowercase L instead of the uppercase "I" is different from "I")
There is a widespread belief that a company knows a lot about us, regardless by ... everything! For example
all Internet Provider (Alice, Tele2, free ...) knows perfectly well that connection I use ... already, they have the power ... But no, only our provider is in possession of a copy of our contract , is not it? Or e-mail, we arrive at any time spam, spam comes from the keyboard and mouse as far as I see! Yet no one actually knows who is behind that address, if not who gave it to you ... if you were sincere (Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail ...)
More bad of us Italians is to ... believe the credentials: it has one, said to come on behalf of the Bank foo-Italian, perhaps we have already heard about and we think it must be something serious, do not risk better, listen to this!
Today, to recount the last anecdote, my mother received a call: someone, perhaps a young man, looks like this "are of a banking group ***" and tells where to speak to my father, Mr. Ferri . My mother understood right away that the number was taken from telephone directories, where, in error, instead it was left to Dr. Mr.
just I myself, when I hear talk of a banking group, I immediately got up from his chair and went to my mother to confirm that they are crooks, but because you, this banking group, does not know anything ... and see if ... is she who handles the family budget.
But what did the young man on the phone? It looks like the banking group, so it will be easier to justify the fact that we do not know, probably our bank has joined with others, do not bat an eyelid. Discovery that our bank (I did not realize it?) Will explain that there were administrative problems related to enlargement of management and are necessary security checks.
In short, the party believes that it is serious, it will be easy to snatch a few vital information a. .. draining your bank account!
Warning: Never give out passwords or personal information important to the phone or via e-mail, especially if you are communicating with strangers!
Soon I will inform the countermeasures we can take, such as complaints or simple tests.
all Internet Provider (Alice, Tele2, free ...) knows perfectly well that connection I use ... already, they have the power ... But no, only our provider is in possession of a copy of our contract , is not it? Or e-mail, we arrive at any time spam, spam comes from the keyboard and mouse as far as I see! Yet no one actually knows who is behind that address, if not who gave it to you ... if you were sincere (Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail ...)
More bad of us Italians is to ... believe the credentials: it has one, said to come on behalf of the Bank foo-Italian, perhaps we have already heard about and we think it must be something serious, do not risk better, listen to this!
Today, to recount the last anecdote, my mother received a call: someone, perhaps a young man, looks like this "are of a banking group ***" and tells where to speak to my father, Mr. Ferri . My mother understood right away that the number was taken from telephone directories, where, in error, instead it was left to Dr. Mr.
just I myself, when I hear talk of a banking group, I immediately got up from his chair and went to my mother to confirm that they are crooks, but because you, this banking group, does not know anything ... and see if ... is she who handles the family budget.
But what did the young man on the phone? It looks like the banking group, so it will be easier to justify the fact that we do not know, probably our bank has joined with others, do not bat an eyelid. Discovery that our bank (I did not realize it?) Will explain that there were administrative problems related to enlargement of management and are necessary security checks.
In short, the party believes that it is serious, it will be easy to snatch a few vital information a. .. draining your bank account!
Warning: Never give out passwords or personal information important to the phone or via e-mail, especially if you are communicating with strangers!
Soon I will inform the countermeasures we can take, such as complaints or simple tests.
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