100% OT: Please take care over your CC InfoFollow

I'm one to always keep up with the latest phishing scams, and I've tried my bloody hardest to pound this info into my dad's head but to no avail...basically...
BANKS WILL NEVER SEND YOU EMAILS TO VERIFY INFORMATION

Please...Keep your personal information safe & your identities.

Last night a (real) Wells Fargo representative called for my parents over a few suspicious transactions. Dad checked the account when he came home, and discovered 2 $1000 transactions to some other wells fargo account. My father was phished. He replied to what he thought was an official bank email. Please keep this stuff in mind when you get mailings like this in your inbox. My father has had to change accounts (the representative also shut down the account where the money was sent, yay), and put in a fraud report with the credit companies...and they'll have to keep monitoring their credit for the next several months.

PLEASE, I know this is wholly OT, but I don't want to see my fellow Shivaans fall into this despicable trap.

On the positive side, dad is getting the 2k back. Phew.

The bit where he says "On the positive side, dad is getting the 2k back. Phew." kinda leans to his dad being refunded that money ;)

Sorry if it came across harsh, only meant to be a light hearted dig^^


On topic, I know that my bank sent out letters to people recently telling them that they would never be sent emails or mail asking for their details. Later that day I got 4 emails right into my spam box claiming to be from my bank. Was pretty spooky how much it looked like it was real too.

While this is not a bad idea there exists a bug in internet explorer where someone can make a link and even IE will show the link as being to whatever webpage you want it to be.

Ok that may not have made a lot of sense but here is an example. You get an email for XYZBank (Your Bank since you're John Doe!) You hover your mouse over the link and it says XYZBank.com, so it must be right. You click on the link and the URL sasy XYZBank.com. What you don't realize is that you are actually at www.IStealYourBankInfo.com/XYZBankFakeSite/ I believe microsoft has fixed IE with a patch but I cannot be for certain

Before entering anything in response to a received email call your bank. Before giving out your CC/Personal information in response to a telephone call I would even call the bank. Yes, they can receive your information over the phone and use it just as if you had entered it online. If you receive a call that you think to be fake I would get the person's name, phone number and department and then call the bank to insure you are speaking with a true representitive of their organization.

thats why i use firefox for one, but on MIcrosoft Outlook, you can check. Ironically this faux email didnt have an ip address for the true address but it didnt say www.wellsfargo.com either (i dont remember what it was though).
Best bet is to run the cursor over the link just in case. ^^b