Three-Pronged Phishing Attack on at Kansas City
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A phishing attack has come visiting on thousands of Kansas City residents in their email, telephones and cell phones. The scam, it is reported, has already bilked dozens of KC inhabitants.
It is calling people on their phone and sending them SMS or email messages pretending to be the Mazuma Credit Union. It informs them, their credit account has been temporarily suspended as a security measure. In order to reactivate their accounts, they are asked to submit secret account info like ATM Pin number either at a website given inside the email or at an 800- number mentioned in the SMS.
President of Mazuma Mr. Rob Givens is worried for his customers. SMS messages, he is concerned, can prompt people to respond intuitively and thus help the fraudsters meet their ends. His anxiety is worsened by knowledge of instances where fraudsters had withdrawn thousands of money within hours of laying their hands on the confidential data from ATM machines at places as far flung as Los Angeles and Mexico.
Local authorities, too, are taking no chances. Travis Ford, Assistant Attorney General, Missouri, has roped in assistance of the FBI and the Secret Service on the case. The City has fresh memories from recent attacks perpetrated using illegal websites and bogus 800- numbers, the hit on Central Bank of Kansas City being the latest.
Fraudsters, they found out recently, have become more resourceful. The swindlers have discovered a way to make an effective replica of an ATM card using a thin strip of cardboard and a magnetic stripe.
If you have any info about the scam or have been directly contacted by the scammers, please report them to the Missouri attorney general’s hotline at (800) 392-8222 or at the web site, www.ago.mo.gov.
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October 21st, 2008 at 11:32 am
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