Here are five other key points the IRS wants you to know about phishing scams.
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Security News Daily reports that phishing scams have allowed hackers to gain access to frequent flier accounts.
Phishing scams are moving beyond the misspelled, far-fetched ruses that clog your in-box and beg for your bank codes.
Other unsuspecting users were redirected to fake websites where they were fooled by phishing scams into parting with their identity details.
And then there are security risks: QR codes can be used to spread malware, or as part of phishing scams.
Most are so-called phishing scams, where fraudsters often pose as your bank and claim they need key information from you to keep your account open.
By ensuring that the websites of banks appear first, the government hopes to limit the numbers of people falling for phishing scams and visiting the fake sites.
The researchers also dug up examples of DNS-based phishing scams.
The hackers then used those login details to forward all mail coming into the account to a third party, or in some cases gathered information about contacts to use in other phishing scams.
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This adds to two Facebook-related security holes that surfaced last week, in which there were likely no malicious intentions but which didn't help already-concerned Facebook users from wondering just how safe their data is on a site that repeatedly modifies its privacy policies and has had a well-documented recent history of security flaws and phishing scams.
Despite high-profile examples of internet security breaches, such as the recent incident of phishing email scams, 76% of the survey group thought the internet was a safe place "as long as you know what you're doing".
WhatApp is also meant to be a hub for privacy discussions, and to help consumers guard against scams, identity theft, phishing and other security problems.
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Previously, the DTI has issued warnings over bogus lottery scams originating abroad and web based 'phishing' operations.
The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has told computer users to be wary of potential e-mail scams, as well as fake anti-virus and phishing attacks regarding the Japan earthquake and the tsunami disasters.
Far more common--but still damaging--are the high-volume crime spikes, spam e-mail distribution and "phishing, " a pernicious technique for stealing credit-card information. (For more on online scams, check out "Where The Scammers Are".) The carnage is hard to pin down in dollar terms, but Marcus Ranum, chief security officer of Tenable Security, says it's "billions upon billions"--far more than all "major" hacking incidents combined.
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