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Be careful what you Vish for....
7th July 2008    Current rating: 

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By now, ”phishing” is old news. Who can forget those poorly-worded emails that appeared to be from financial institutions such as PayPal, requesting the recipient log into their account via a link contained in the email? Well, meet the latest in attack mobile spam- ”vishing”, a combination of voice and phishing: “India, one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world with over 277 million mobile subscribers according to TRAI, seems to be the green grass the attackers were looking for… a certain Rakshita Kolaskar (obviously, name changed) became a victim of Vishing when she received an SMS on her mobile, announcing that she was the winner of a $3 million prize from Shell International Mobile Draw, to claim which she’d need to dial an international number. She soon realized that she had been duped, after a Shell official confirmed that no such award was given out.”

So this is just one more area in which mobile subscribers need to be careful. Although the same common sense rule of thumb applies here, as with anything else- if it sounds too good to be true or such an offer is communicated by a sender you do not know, then delete it.
 

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