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May 27, 2008
Safer online banking
You might like to know that if you happened to take our advice and buy yourself a copy of Online Armor, you would have been protected from the latest scam aimed at ANZ Bank's online customers.
The phishing exploit sends out bogus emails aimed at convincing ANZ customers their account has been suspended, and directing them to a bogus site that collects their registration number, name, password, phone number and email address.
An ANZ spokesman warned that "Under no circumstances should [users] click on the link, reply to the email or provide any of the requested details. Always ensure that you only log on to ANZ internet banking by typing http://www.anz.com into the address bar, rather than following links to the ANZ website. Disregard any emails that advise otherwise."
Unfortunately, no matter how many times people are warned about this, these emails seem to excite some deep-seated flaw in human nature. If you make it a point to activate banking mode in Online Armor before you do any online financial transactions, you can't go anywhere dangerous.
Posted by cw at May 27, 2008 06:39 PM
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We keep getting an eBay Phishing attack at work claiming legal action unless they get the Sony Vaio they paid for. It looks identical to an official eBay enquiry.
Posted by: Daniel W Woods at May 27, 2008 08:20 PM