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Phishing 1 - Bank Web Sites |
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NEVER -
EVER provide your bank or credit card details (including
PIN numbers) over the Internet as a reaction to
receiving an email that appears to be from your bank and
asking you to confirm details online (and usually
provide a link).
These FAKE sites can look very legitimate but are
there just to trick you into providing sensitive
financial information. NEVER provide sensitive details
unless you are certain that you are on a genuine site
AND you have entered the address by typing the full
address in - NOT by following a link from an email.
No legitimate bank will ever ask you to provide a PIN
number or other information they should already have.
REMEMBER - there are fake sites out there that look
just like the real thing and if you attempt to log on to
them you will be providing log on details to your bank
account to fraudsters - simply remember to ONLY provide
log on details if you have actually typed in the full
address of your banks site (NOT followed a link) and you
will be as safe as it is possible to be. |
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Phishing 2 - Ebay |
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Similar
to above, but you receive an email indicating a problem
with your Ebay account, asking you to log on (via link)
and confirm details. Again these are FRAUDULENT
attempts to gain sensitive information. Never follow a
link to Ebay - always type www.ebay.co.uk or
www.ebay.com into
your browsers address bar. |
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Phishing 3 - Paypal |
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At the
risk of being repetitive, never log on to your PayPal
account by
following a link on an email - emails being sent out
indicating problems with your account and requesting you
to follow a link to a log on are an attempt to trick you
into providing fraudsters with information. Always
enter PayPal by typing www.paypal.co.uk or
www.paypal.com into your browsers address bar. |
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Someone is after "your" domain
name! - We think NOT! |
| If you are in
business and you receive a phone call from someone
telling you that they have someone trying to buy a
domain name, but that because the name is more similar
to your business name they want to give you the "first
refusal" - as long as you pay there and then by credit
card. FORGET IT! they just want to trick you into
paying over the odds prices for a name you may not
really want (but may not be keen for someone else to
have). If you do want the name, use someone reputable
such as
PinkDylan. |
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Data Protection Act - "Official"
notice - We think NOT! |
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business and keeping personal data on a PC you should be
registered under the Data Protection Act - HOWEVER, be
wary of what look like official documents from names
that sound very similar to "Data Protection Register".
It is just an attempt to get you to pay someone over the
odds to get registered. |
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Domain Name Due For Renewal -
maybe, BUT.... |
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Be very
careful if you receive a letter from a company you have
never heard of that is telling you that your domain name
is up for renewal - and enclosing what looks like an
invoice. This is probably an attempt to get you to
renew the name through a different company at inflated
rates. "Domain Name Registry of America" is a prime
example - they send out letters (based on a "stolen"
database of names) further in advance than your existing
provider would normally contact you. If in doubt
contact the company that registered the name for you. It
would be bad advise to advice routine binning of such
letters, but check them out before paying anything! |
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