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Callers spoof the caller ID number of the victim's actual lending institution, swindling money from those seeking financial relief. FCC warns of 50-state scam by fraudsters posing as mortgage ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
[5] [13] By 2008 the company had $66 million in annual revenues. [8] In 2008, Whitepages said it would start working on options for users to control their information on the site. [14] That same year, it acquired VoIP developer Snapvine [10] in order to add features where users could be called through the website without giving out their phone ...
Voice phishing, or vishing, [1] is the use of telephony (often Voice over IP telephony) to conduct phishing attacks.. Landline telephone services have traditionally been trustworthy; terminated in physical locations known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer.
Caller ID spoofing is a spoofing attack which causes the telephone network's Caller ID to indicate to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is a station other than the true originating station. This can lead to a display showing a phone number different from that of the telephone from which the call was placed. [1]
This is such a common crime that the state of Arizona listed affinity scams of this type as its number one scam for 2009. In one recent nationwide religious scam, churchgoers are said to have lost more than $50 million in a phony gold bullion scheme, promoted on daily telephone prayer chains, in which they thought they could earn a huge return ...
the financial situation of the debtor at the time of transfer or after transfer; the existence or a cumulative effect of a series of transactions after the onset of debtor’s financial difficulties; the general chronology of events; secrecy of the transaction in question; and; deviation from the usual method or course of business.
A suspected illegal immigrant was arrested in South Carolina after officials say he made a fake bomb threat during a traffic stop which ultimately led to a section of the I-85 being shut down for ...