A new phishing scam is taking aim at members of the U.S. military and their families, using unsolicited e-mails purportedly from United States Automobile Association (USAA), one of the nation’s largest financial services and insurance companies, to trick people into divulging their personal information to identity thieves.
USAA and the Navy Federal Credit Union in May were hit by a similar phishing scam that also attempted to extract Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, birth dates and other information used to either pilfer bank accounts or steal unsuspecting users’ identities. This time around, according to an advisory on security software maker AppRiver’s Web site, the con artists are sending a slew of unsolicited e-mails with subject titles, such as “USAA Notification” or “Urgent Message for USAA customer” in the hope of getting just a small fraction of a percentage of recipients to click on a link embedded in the missive.
According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, a consortium of Web retailing, software, security and financial firms, more than 126,000 fake Web sites designed solely to steal users’ personal information were discovered in the first half of this year alone.
Source: http://www.esecurityplanet.com/features/article.php/3911141/Phishing-Scam-%20Targets-Military-Families.htm
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