{"id":423,"date":"2010-02-16T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2024-01-04T12:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:50:55","slug":"phishing-scams-involving-government-e-mails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/email-scam\/phishing-scams-involving-government-e-mails\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing Scams Includes Government E-mails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Phishing<\/strong> is a scheme in which <strong>Internet scammers<\/strong> send consumers e-mails disguised as memos from well-known retailers, banks, credit card companies and government agencies. These types of message often convey a sense of urgency or warn of account termination. They made the consumer to click on their web address which links directlyto the website of the business or agency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-438\" title=\"Scams\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/phish1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Consumers are then redirected to a fake website that has probably been cut and pasted from the legitimate website with a fake data. Subtle changes will be made to these sham websites to lure consumers into entering sensitive information or to allow your machine to download any viruses.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">A <strong>phishing<\/strong> campaign has been detected within the past 24 hours, which is designed to make the user into clicking on a malicious link. Clicking this link may cause your machine to be infected with the <strong>Zeus malware<\/strong> (nasty piece of malware). Especially, malware\u2019s main target is <strong>bank login details.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/phishing11.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-439\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/phishing11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The emails would have appeared to come from various governmental agencies. But now a days <strong>Phishing Scams<\/strong> involving Government E-Mails also. So, the actual website you are asked to click on, is may not be a government (.gov) site. Opening <strong>phishing e-mails<\/strong> and clicking onto their web-links also poses the danger of infecting your computer with a virus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some viruses may contain spyware programs to track your personal computer use and monitor web surfing. It can change computer settings, promote unwanted pop-up ads, cause your computer to malfunction, lose data and even crash completely. The UK government is investing <strong>\u00a34.3m<\/strong>to clamp down on this growing source of crime.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/readership.org\/modafinil-uk-online\/\">https:\/\/readership.org\/modafinil-uk-online\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phishing is a scheme in which Internet scammers send consumers e-mails disguised as memos from well-known retailers, banks, credit card companies and government agencies. These types of message often convey a sense of urgency or warn of account termination. They made the consumer to click on their web address which links directlyto the website of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[106,35],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-email-scam","tag-email-scam","tag-phishing-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}