Today I received an email supposedly from Yahoo, asking me to click on a url to upgrade my mail account. Reading the email thoroughly, I discovered a comma where a period was supposed to be, and immediately deleted the email. It was just another scam to allow a hacker access to my system! One must give these hackers some credit .... they are persistent!
The FBI most recent cyber crime story is from a few days ago, "Purchase Order Scam Leaves a Trail of Victims". The attackers are using online
and telephone social engineering techniques to trick
retailers into fulfilling fake Purchase Orders that are purportedly from legitimate businesses. The products end up in Nigeria. A new tactic, but using old tricks. Like always, businesses must look for e-mails that contain unusual phrases or spellings, and phone
numbers that are hardly ever answered by a live person. Again the emphasis is not on any complicated security measures, but on plain old common sense!
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/october/cyber-crime-purchase-order-scam-leaves-a-trail-of-victims/cyber-crime-purchase-order-scam-leaves-a-trail-of-victims
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