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| FRAUD ALERT |
Beware of smishing ploys
The following fraud alert is from the Clark Howard Website.
Have you been "smished" yet? Smishing is when a criminal goes phishing for your
personal info via text message. This year, Americans will face an estimated 1.5 billion
spam text messages.
Those who use eBay, do online banking or access a brokerage account online are at
the greatest risk of getting smished. So watch out for those urgent text messages
seeking your personal banking info. The Washington Post reports even sophisticated
people are falling for these ploys.
Text messaging is a big growth area for cons and legitimate advertisers alike. The cell
carriers aren't interested in slowing down the traffic. After all, they're making money
on every text you receive, unless you're on an unlimited texting plan.
Meanwhile, there's a new level of security coming to your online brokerage account.
Soon, you'll be able to use your mouse to put in a password on a soft screen -- instead
of typing it on your keyboard. This will help minimize keylogger infiltration, where
every keystroke can be remotely sent to a hacker.
The following fraud alert is from the Clark Howard Website.
Have you been "smished" yet? Smishing is when a criminal goes phishing for your
personal info via text message. This year, Americans will face an estimated 1.5 billion
spam text messages.
Those who use eBay, do online banking or access a brokerage account online are at
the greatest risk of getting smished. So watch out for those urgent text messages
seeking your personal banking info. The Washington Post reports even sophisticated
people are falling for these ploys.
Text messaging is a big growth area for cons and legitimate advertisers alike. The cell
carriers aren't interested in slowing down the traffic. After all, they're making money
on every text you receive, unless you're on an unlimited texting plan.
Meanwhile, there's a new level of security coming to your online brokerage account.
Soon, you'll be able to use your mouse to put in a password on a soft screen -- instead
of typing it on your keyboard. This will help minimize keylogger infiltration, where
every keystroke can be remotely sent to a hacker.
