Phishers Going After Your Phones in New 'Vishing' Trend
Hopefully we've covered enough tales of phishing woe that you're now cautious of clicking on links and entering in your personal info. We've also talked about the process of whaling, and how modern phishers are getting sneakier with their fake e-mails. Now, though, some are giving up on flooding your e-mail inbox entirely and instead heading for your voicemail inbox.The process has been dubbed 'vishing' (which we don't think rolls off the tongue quite like 'phishing') and often entails a scammer using bogus services to trick the caller ID system on your phones into making you think your bank is calling you. You'll then be redirected to another number and prompted to enter in information like your Social Security Number, bank number, or PIN -- and you can guess what they'll do with that. Some scammers haven't quite given up on e-mail -- they're sending e-mails (instead of phone calls) and then expecting you to dial them up and enter all your personal info!
You'd never do such a thing, though, right? [Source: USA Today]
Every so often it's nice to cover a story with a happy ending. Here's a new one: When Verizon upgraded the phone system in his hometown of Irvington, NY, 80-year-old widower Charles Whiting lost the outgoing message -- recorded by his late wife Catherine -- on his voicemail system. Whiting would call his voicemail everyday just to hear her voice, and feel like she was still with him.
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