Email Hacked, and other Interesting Frauds? Things You Need to do NOW

Thank you Kathy. I am Honored .

Happy Halloween from Nancy

As Active Rainers we can SHOUT IT OUT" whenever we see an injustice done and tell it to "our world." We have an excellent platform with great followers, and I'm glad to see so many "Spreading the Word." to others.

We live in a world which invites scammers, sleazeballs and con artists via the Internet, but we can "turn that around" to our advantage and report these activities whenever we see them.

Thank you all for helping to expose these scammers, sleazeballs and con artists. You're doing a great job!

Last week's Blog was on Protection for You and Your Home!

Happy Halloween from Nancy

Here is a message I received from AT & T:

A recent Trojan Horse email scam targeting AT&T customers includes links to malicious software. The email displays similar to an AT&T bill and includes a subject line relating to a new or past due account balance.

ANOTHER SERIOUS SCAM WARNING TO BE AWARE OF!

An article appearing in NewsGenius

Monday, October 15, 2012 — Thousands of Florida Realtors and other professionals with state licenses are being warned of a “very official”-looking identity theft scam that lures potential victims with threats of disciplinary action.

“It looks very official,” Poreda said about the e-mail, which is being investigated by the department. “They copied the banner on our website and created an e-mail signature that looks very much like ours.”

While Realtors submitted the initial complaints about the scam, Poreda said the department doesn’t know how people are being targeted and therefore are notifying all of their license holders.

Officials fear the scam could be more effective than a typical e-mail solicitation because the department does contact licenses holders through e-mail about disciplinary issues. But Poreda said an official notice is typically also sent via regular mail.

“It’s important for people to know that this contact is not coming from us,” she said.

Anyone who gets a suspicious warning of disciplinary action from the department is being asked to call 850-487-1395 and report it to law enforcement.

The Federal Trade Commission reported earlier this year that Florida ranked first in the nation last year for the number of identity theft complaints per capita. Georgia followed, with California coming in third.

Florida’s top identity theft complaints came from fraud relating to government documents, such as tax returns, followed by credit card fraud and bank fraud.

To view the original article, click here: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/business/real-estate/florida-realtors-warned-about-identity-theft-scam/nSXmq/

If these scammers are hitting Florida, you can bet they’re headed your way soon. Let's all get the word out to our data base NOW.

Those Yellow Page Faxes are one of the worse SCAMS around because they are a bogus company OUT-OF-THE-COUNTRY and there is no way to contact them.

I was just emailed this Virus a few minutes ago. So here is another WARNING on VIRUSES!

BEWARE of a BETTER BUSINESS letter stating someone has FILED A COMPLAINT against you.

They ask you to look at the complaint in PDF form, however, if you look carefully, it will show you that it is actually an APPLICATION, not a pdf file. And I guarantee you, there will be a VIRUS downloaded into your computer as soon as you try opening the BOGUS PDF.

Is there no end to this insanity?

Bill:

Glad you were able to locate the article. As you can see by the responses, even though AR did not FEATURE this post, many saw it and have re-blogged it. Yes, we can't be too aware of what's lurking in Cyber-World!