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I receive so many phishing (fraudulent) emails asking to update my bank account details else threatening to close my bank account. These are basically emails pretending to be from a bank and provide a link to a hoax webpage designed to look like your original bank website, wherein you're expected to put in all your bank login details.
Interesting thing is, I've managed to do a Whois search on the fraudulent domain names and been able to get contact details of the person registering the hoax domain names.
My question is, isn't it easy for the police to track down such criminial websites and the persons operating them? Why is the threat for phishing scam not taken seriously? I don't even know if there's a separate government department set up for reporting cybercrime.
Have you ever received a phishing email asking for your Bank a/c details?
I just handled a phishing e-mail that indicated my PayPal password had been changed. It was almost identical to a real password change notification except it told you to go to a website and login with your old password. The e-mail came from service784@security-paypal.com. I checked and a real notification came from service@paypal.com.
The link in the letter looked like a paypal.com url, but, instead took you to http://www.paylowpal.com/ . I spoofed an e-mail and password and was taken to http://www.paylowpal.com/wbsc.php where I was asked to provide all of the info from my credit card to verify who I was.
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