The issue regarding Phishing and Online Banking is one that has been discussed allot in recent times. Banks in South Africa have been especially plagued by this, every once in a while I have heard from friends and family that they received strange email messages, instructing them to fill in their internet banking credentials, as far as I can I have evangelized the anti-Phishing gospel, and have had success, my mother recently received an email message instructing her to change her Online Banking Credentials, lucky for her I had been brain washing her to just ignore any email which asks any information with regards to Online Banking! She took a printed copy of the email to her bank branch and at enquirers the person told her: “The bank sometimes sends out emails like that and that she didn’t have to worry about it”, I was shocked beyond believe when I heard this, how could a employee of the bank who works at enquirers, not know that this was a scam? Are the banks people not educated in the matters at hand!!
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May 07
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