Google targeted in e-mail scam
Google targeted in e-mail scam .Google's web-based e-mail system, Gmail, has been targeted as part of an "industry-wide phishing scheme". .BBC News has seen two lists that detail more than 30,000 names and passwords from e-mail providers, including Yahoo and AOL, which were posted online. The lists also include details of thousands of Microsoft Hotmail users. Google said fewer than 500 of its accounts had been affected by the scam. Phishing involves using fake websites to lure people into revealing data such as bank account details or login names.
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- Blog Source: blog.brickhousesecurity.comGoogle's Gmail has become the target of an industry-wide phishing scam. Phishing is when hackers create fake websites in an attempt to get voluntary information.
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I simply refuse to use my real name as an email addy name, identity theft alone, is a good enough reason for me not to and now this.
Several of my friends have asked how I get away without using my real name anywhere, its simple, the only place that needs my real name is shipping address labels and thats only if I am ordering something for myself, otherwise my real name means nothing at all to companies.
Protect yourselves at all times and never use your real name or resign into anything that asks, if it does, close out all your tabs, clear your history and go to the page again and sign in because chances are if they all of a sudden want you to sign in again, you're being phished.
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