{"id":408,"date":"2006-05-02T04:54:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T21:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=408"},"modified":"2006-05-02T04:54:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T21:54:02","slug":"phishers-try-a-phone-hook-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/phishers-try-a-phone-hook-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishers try a phone hook | CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Phishers+try+a+phone+hook\/2100-7349_3-6066171.html?tag=alert\">Phishers try a phone hook | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a new twist on phishing, fraudsters are sending out e-mails that attempt to trick people into sharing personal information over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudmark, a San Francisco-based e-mail security company, said it has seen two separate attacks this week. In both cases, the spammed message warns of a problem with a bank account and instructs the recipient to dial a phone number to resolve it, the company said in a statement published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The caller is connected to a voice response system that is made to sound exactly like the bank&#8217;s own system, Cloudmark said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The phone system identifies itself to the target as the financial institution and prompts them to enter account number and PIN,&#8221; Cloudmark said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phishers try a phone hook | CNET News.com For more info click on above link In a new twist on phishing, fraudsters are sending out e-mails that attempt to trick people into sharing personal information over the phone. Cloudmark, a San Francisco-based e-mail security company, said it has seen two separate attacks this week. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-scams-and-hoaxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}