Spoofing-Phishing and Link_Altering - Expensive Financial Traps

"Spoofing" or "phishing" scam Internet users believe the shipping e-mail, a specific source of confidence, or they are connected to a trusted site, if this is not to be the case stretch. Spoofing is generally used as a way to convince people to obtain personal or financial information that allows authors to commit fraud disclose credit card / bank or other forms of identity theft.

In "E-mail spoofing" the header of an e-mail come from a place other than the origin of man. Traders often use spam e-mail spoofing in an attempt to their recipients open the message and can also respond to their demands.

"IP address spoofing" is a technique allowing unauthorized access to a computer. In this case, the ruthless invasion of a message to a computer with an IP address indicating that the message is from a trusted source.

"Link Change" means a change to a return address of an Internet Web page that is sent to consumers through the receiver on the site of an attacker rather than the legitimate site redirection. This can be done by the IP address of the hacker, the actual e-mail with a request to the original location. If a person receives nietsvermoedend a fake and go to the "Click for email update" account information, for example, and be taken to a website that is exactly like a commercial site such as eBay or PayPal, there is a good chance that person is the personal model and / or monitor credit. and that is exactly what the hacker.

How to protect yourself
• If you need to get your data update online, follow the same procedure as above, or to open a new browser window and type the address of the web page legitimate business.
• If the address of a website do not know, it's probably not authentic. Use the address you just used, or better yet, from the usual home page.
• Most companies require that you connect to a secure Web site. Make a padlock icon at the bottom of the browser and "https" before the address of a Web site.
• If you surveys unwanted e-mail, either directly or through a website can create, financial information or have very careful personal identity, such as social security numbers, passwords or other identifiers.
• Keep the address header on the site. The most reputable sites have a relatively short internet address that usually shows the company name followed by ".com" or possibly ".org". Scam sites are more likely to be strong characters long in the head, with the name of the legitimate business somewhere in the chain, or perhaps not at all.
• If in doubt about an e-mail or directly on the website of the legitimate company. Make a copy of the URL of the questionable website, send it to the legitimate company and ask if the request is genuine.
• Inform e-mail or fraudulent suspect, always at your ISP.
• Finally, if you have been a victim, you should file a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center of FBI http://www.ic3.gov resistant.