Phishing Scams
The social relevance of phishing scams in a global era: From present to future
TABLE OF CONTENT TABLE OF CONTENT 2 ABSTRACT 3 INTRODUCTION 4 Six common ways about phishing scams 5 POTENTIAL SOCIAL IMPACTS 6 IMPACT ON PEOPLE 7 CONCLUSION 8 REFERENCE LIST 9
ABSTRACT
Because of the development of technology, people are using email more and more often than before to purchasing, online-banking. etc. There are lots of emails are used actively in users communication, users must have received various messages claiming to be from Ebay, Paypal and a number of banks. A recent email as if from U.S. Bank Corporation those users received contains the subject "U.S. Bank Fraud Verification Process" and in the body of the mail says "We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your U.S. Bank Internet Banking account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. Protecting the security of your account and of the U.S. Bank network is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to sensitive account features. To restore your account access, please take the following steps to ensure that your account has not been compromised." It continues with a link to a webpage, which looks very similar to original web page of the bank. This misleading web site which always contains malicious program appears authentic with familiar graphics and logos. The wordings are professional right down to the legal disclaimer at the bottom of the page. If users holding an account of this bank by coincident, following the steps of the email and input customers' account, pin, password, etc. Then these users just have handed over access to their own account to a con artist, in a matter of days, will drain off all the money available in that account.
This new scam, which is increasing in a very significant pace, is called "Phishing Scams". Phishing is one of the Identity Theft form, where these con artists use official
TABLE OF CONTENT TABLE OF CONTENT 2 ABSTRACT 3 INTRODUCTION 4 Six common ways about phishing scams 5 POTENTIAL SOCIAL IMPACTS 6 IMPACT ON PEOPLE 7 CONCLUSION 8 REFERENCE LIST 9
ABSTRACT
Because of the development of technology, people are using email more and more often than before to purchasing, online-banking. etc. There are lots of emails are used actively in users communication, users must have received various messages claiming to be from Ebay, Paypal and a number of banks. A recent email as if from U.S. Bank Corporation those users received contains the subject "U.S. Bank Fraud Verification Process" and in the body of the mail says "We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your U.S. Bank Internet Banking account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. Protecting the security of your account and of the U.S. Bank network is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to sensitive account features. To restore your account access, please take the following steps to ensure that your account has not been compromised." It continues with a link to a webpage, which looks very similar to original web page of the bank. This misleading web site which always contains malicious program appears authentic with familiar graphics and logos. The wordings are professional right down to the legal disclaimer at the bottom of the page. If users holding an account of this bank by coincident, following the steps of the email and input customers' account, pin, password, etc. Then these users just have handed over access to their own account to a con artist, in a matter of days, will drain off all the money available in that account.
This new scam, which is increasing in a very significant pace, is called "Phishing Scams". Phishing is one of the Identity Theft form, where these con artists use official