[LINK] Commbank phishing
Jan Whitaker
jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Wed Jun 3 09:43:07 AEST 2009
At 08:42 AM 3/06/2009, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>I expect that I'm like many others on Link, getting many messages a
>day purporting to come from the Commonwealth Bank seeking verification
>of my details (I get around 500+ a day on my mail server). My spam
>filters are getting better at blocking them, but around 10 or so get
>through per day.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/security/commbank-cops-sustained-online-fraud-attack/2009/06/02/1243708447679.html
I'm also getting St George, Netbank, Paypal and a new one,
Mastercard. BTW, I'm not a customer of any of them. So the story has
it wrong on that count.
Interesting that they are using phone call phishing now, too, and the
mention of 'do not call the number' as a new piece of advice that is needed.
Jan
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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