Computer threat - how to identify phishing

Fisher - a fraudsters who play on trust

They use spam, malicious sites and instant messages to extract your confidential information such as your bank and credit cards. A more detailed description can be found in this article.

Here are some of the signs by which one can determine the phishers.

- Issued as representatives of actual companies, but use e-mail for requests for personal information, as well as directing users to fake websites;

- In order to force you to download malware, may argue that an urgent need to take certain measures, as, for example, there were some problems with your account, and the like;

- Often use emotionally charged vocabulary and scare tactics to get feedback;

In England arrested phishers, who created two thousand fake web-sites of banks

The detainees were charged with conspiring to fraud and money laundering

Law enforcement authorities in London arrested three men suspected of creating 2,000 phishing pages containing malware. The aim of attackers were bank customers who used the online services of financial institutions. It is reported by V3.

One Nigerian and two Romanian citizens were arrested on 29 October. They were charged with conspiring to fraud and money laundering. According to investigators, the attackers create fake pages of financial institutions in order to get the bank details of potential victims.

The arrests were carried out on the eve of the creation of the National Agency in the UK to combat crime (National Crime Agency, NCA) and the National Division opposition cyber crimes (National Cyber ​​Crime Unit, NCCU). Head of the Metropolitan Police to combat electronic crime Charlie McMurdie said that the operation to apprehend phishers shows how will operate new departments of law enforcement agencies, when their powers are in force.