{"id":512,"date":"2006-07-11T21:30:19","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T14:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=512"},"modified":"2006-07-11T21:30:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T14:30:19","slug":"phishers-come-calling-on-voip-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/phishers-come-calling-on-voip-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishers come calling on VoIP | CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Phishers+come+calling+on+VoIP\/2100-7349_3-6092366.html?tag=alert\">Phishers come calling on VoIP | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cheaply available voice over Internet Protocol numbers and Net calling are helping crooks launch new data-thieving scams, a security company has warned.<\/p>\n<p>In a twist on phishing, fraudsters are now calling their intended victims instead of e-mailing them. The caller hears an automated message that warns of a problem with a bank account, Secure Computing, a maker of security appliances, said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The message includes instructions to call a phone number to resolve the issues. That number connects the caller to a voice response system asking the consumer to enter their 16-digit credit card number, Secure Computing said.<\/p>\n<p>The fraudsters likely use stolen identities to set up a voice-response system and acquire local VoIP phone numbers, according to Secure Computing, which dubbed the new way of scamming &#8220;vishing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phishers come calling on VoIP | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Cheaply available voice over Internet Protocol numbers and Net calling are helping crooks launch new data-thieving scams, a security company has warned. In a twist on phishing, fraudsters are now calling their intended victims instead of e-mailing them. The caller [&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-512","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\/512","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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}