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Vishing

Posted by mwelch January 24, 2008 05:10 PM

Source: WSJ Business Tech Blog

Just in case you need more things to worry about, the FBI " has issued a warning about a new kind of cyber crime: vishing." Short for voice phishing, it's when you receive a voicemail, email or text message telling you to call your bank and resolve some sort of dispute. There's a phone number in the message. You call it and the auto-prompt tells you to enter your account number. Bingo! You've been vished and you can say goodbye to your bank account. Evil hackers.

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