LaSalle Police Caution Users of Latest E-mail ScamLaSalle (Ontario, Canada) Police Service has cautioned that there is a new Internet scam to be careful of. The service lately got a call about a questionable mail posing to have come from Revenue Canada and demands private details of the caller. The mail informs that the person will receive a refund from Revenue Canada. It contains links to Revenue Canada and asks private information to verify the person's identity for depositing the money into his account. The e-mail contains a particular form that requires name, date of birth and social insurance number. All these details can be used by hackers involved in ID theft or other kinds of fake misrepresentation for committing malicious activities. The form appears authentic but actually it is not. The police commented that Revenue Canada scam is the first of its kind to come in LaSalle. The user is unknown about the fact that the hacker has captured all his details and uses those details on the original banking site to withdraw money from the account. The LaSalle police informed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) because Internet scams come under the jurisdiction of RCMP. RCMP said that the Revenue Canada scam came during December 2008. LaSalle police further added that users should be careful of mails claiming to be come from government and asks for private details. The police also disclosed that this is not the method of the government to carry out business. The police also revealed that Canada Revenue and many large banks do not send mails like these, nor they ask the user to update their private details or confidential pin in a mail. In addition, security experts said that hackers devote a lot of time to make sites that imitate the original ones. The latest sites imitated include major banks, Canada Revenue, PayPal and EBay. Moreover, the phishing mails are consistently attacking Canada citizens as in similar reports lately citizens of Charlottetown (Canada) also got phishing mails asking for private details of the accounts for tax refund. Related article: Local Internet Crime Gang Busted in South Africa, 13 Held ยป SPAMfighter News - 2/7/2009 |    |
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