Global Internet Fraudsters Attack User Accounts of TradeMe

Global Internet scammers are aiming attack on the auction website TradeMe's client accounts through an identity fraud divided in two phases for attempting at duping innocent New Zealanders, published bayofplentytimes.co.nz dated September 26, 2012.

Fraudsters based in Eastern Europe, Nigeria and Indonesia have been dispatching phishing e-mails intended for subscribers of TradeMe posing as representatives of the Internet bidding website while soliciting personal information.

One such e-mail recipient is Claire Warren a woman from Bethlehem (Tauranga, New Zealand).

She explains that the e-mail tells that 3 unauthorized attempts had been made for accessing her account as also that the message gives the IP addresses from where the attempts were made. Bayofplentytimes.co.nz published this.

Ms. Warren therefore went into her TradeMe A/c so she could get in touch with the service's customer care that replied that the e-mail she referred to was indeed malicious.

It came to her mind that the general public should just get alerted of the happening.

Anyone following the web-link provided inside the e-mail looses personal details to the cyber scammers that enables them get hold of the person's TradeMe account, one method frequently utilized for garnering banking credentials followed with stealing from associated accounts.

Jeff Hunkin, Communications Advisor at TradeMe states that an e-mail of the same kind was dispatched, during the 3rd-week of September 2012, targeting TradeMe users that solicited their credit-card particulars. Sunlive.co.nz published this dated September 26, 2012.

The Consultant states that TradeMe lost no time in identifying the glitch as also in issuing a security alert on its website for its users.

Also according to Jon Duffy, Head of TradeMe Trust, owing to some reason there hadn't been any scrutiny of phishing electronic mails during the 3rd-week of September 2012 that caused numerous people to get a same message, which told them to reveal their private details. Sunlive.co.nz published this.

The Official states that TradeMe urged recipients of the recent electronic mail who inadvertently divulged personal information on the way for halting their driver licenses and credit cards.

According to him, the general public must know that TradeMe doesn't ever request its users' personal information.

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