Tag Archives: identity theft

Vishing – Voice Phishing

January 11, 2009 – 11:58 am | By Gatt | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Vishing is a criminal fraud method of acquiring personal information over the phone by pretending to be a legitimate business such as Bank or Credit Card Company. Read More »

Beware of Pretexting when you get a call

August 1, 2008 – 2:37 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

phone Beware of Pretexting when you get a call imagePretexting is a criminal method of acquiring private information by pretending to be a legitimate authority and is primarily done over the phone. Pretexter can then sell this information or use this for identity theft. Read More »

Phishing attack – Using Fake email for identity theft

July 16, 2008 – 2:44 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Internet | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Phishing is a criminal fraud in which Phisher attempts to steal personal information such as user name, password, bank account number, pin, credit card number etc by pretending to be a trustworthy website. It typically involves sending an email or IM link that appears to be from a trustworthy source such as Bank, Credit Card Company, Paypal, ebay etc and then redirects user to a fake website where user enters personal information. Read More »