They're getting more brazen these days.
They steal banking Internet personas to con connected patrons into revealing their financial information.
The e-mail usually warns of some security issues involving their accounts and asks them to respond to a "bank" link.
Accessing the bogus website of course requires giving confidential passwords and codes for checking and savings accounts.
Voila, the rest is history. The accounts are plundered through legitimate money transfers to Nigeria or former parts of the Soviet Union.
Lately, Internet thieves are sending e-mails from the "Internal Revenue Service," using bureaucratize to prompt a "tax statement review" in a "fraud" investigation.
The "Underreported Income Notice" from "customersupport@mail.irs.gov" obviously is trolling for social security and other vital identity data to steal.
And authorities are powerless to stop the scams. (29 NOVEMBER 2009)
