Showing posts with label Scam and phising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scam and phising. Show all posts

Monday, July 7, 2008

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Site advisor


Be careful when surfing in internet especially if the website you are going to visit is not popular or you don't know the site very well. It might contained virus which can damaged your computer, trojan or spyware which might steal your crucial information and passwords. You should also be wise and think twice before giving your email address to any sites which will spam you and even worse if attempt to scam you.

Fortunately there websites that provide information about websites. one of those is siteadvisor.com. This sites is own by an anti virus company McAfee review from user about the site, comment for their opinion if there a spam, spyware or other things which would give negative effect to browser. It also offer you a free plug in for both internet explorer and Mozilla. This one proven to be very useful to avoid phising websites if you read about my previous post, you may know thats phisher will takes benefits from your mistakes such as typo mistake on website address. It will warn you every time you browsing on internet if the site that you visit is bad.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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kilkbca

When you go to a certain websites in internet be careful, make sure you get into the correct address of the website. Case that happened years ago In Indonesia:

www.klikbca.com is website of BCA, It is an Indonesia bank which is well-known for its online banking services in the whole nation. The Phiser try to catch their victims who made a simple mistake in typing.

Common typo mistake in browsing internet:
www.klikbca.com -The real site
www.kilkbca.com - Phising site

Readmore for more (In Indonesian Language):
forum.kafegaul.com

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What is phising?


Beware of phising sites! I’m sure that everyone knows fishing what is, phising is like fishing.In internet, phising is a scam attempt to acquire user’s crucial information such as username, password and credit card numbers. Those who do phising are called Phiser.

Phiser try to fool their victims by sending manipulated email, fake websites and etc. They made those manipulated websites, e-mails which are almost similar with the real ones that the targeted person would fall for it. Usually they pretend to be trusted websites, famous online shop and etc.

More about Phising at:
en.wikipedia.org