Email scams continue to get more sophisticated -- and local. Over at Montclair State, some students and staff have been receiving emails from someone posing as "Montclair.Edu Webmail Support" asking for their usernames and passwords. The phisher claims to be cleaning out the system's unused email accounts to make room for new ones.
Montclair State's real office of information technology sent out an email Wednesday warning of the posers.
Here are some tips from Microsoft to teach you how to avoid getting snagged by phishing schemes.
We get phishes in our mailbox almost daily claiming to be from PayPal. What tricksters have been trying to steal your personal data lately?
Digg
Delicious
StumbleUpon
Facebook
Twitter
Email
Comments (6)
PayPal and eBay and occassionaly some banks asking me to update my account information and needless to say I don't have any account with them.
I have won billions in European "lotteries," and I have been asked to assist more widows of African diplomats who've died in plane crashes than there are nations in the entire UN body.
I used to get emails from Chase bank regarding account anomolies that needed my 'urgent' attention. I went to www.chase.com and went into my account and all seemed well thus confirming my suspicion that some nefarious gangsta was attempting gain unauthorized access to my account.
About a month ago I got an email from an acquaintance and it stated something like....if you are his friend.....click here....instantly all of the people whose email addresses I have in my contact list got this same email from me....I wanted to die but my sister told me that it wasn't so bad....her email address, with her name on it, has been hijacked and is used to send multitudes of Viagra advertisements daily. Sometimes, I get junk advertising emails from my own email address.
"Sometimes, I get junk advertising emails from my own email address."
I get those, too, especially in my work email.
Right now there seems to be a real spam problem. It's heavier than usual. Our IT dept. knows about it. All ads for Viagra and other pharmaceuticals, Rolex watches, penis enlargment, same 'ol, same 'ol. Annoying glurge.
I got a phishing email from the "IRS" yesterday. It told me I had to click on a link to file a request for my refund of $184. Which is interesting, considering that I received my refund weeks and weeks ago, and all I had to do was file my taxes!