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Scam Watch: Identity thieves targeting CEOs, Craig’s List users
Was your CEO one of the 20,000 who received a scam email subpoena on Monday? Brian Krebs at washingtonpost.com reports that about 2,000 victims were tricked into downloading an item that steals account usernames and passwords from banking sites. A good rule of thumb – any purported serious legal or other business communication rife with English mistakes is probably not what it claims to be.
In other scam news, the Securities and Exchange Commission is going after a phony Latvian brokerage firm that was soliciting job applications on Craig’s List and asking for detailed personal information including social security numbers and date of birth. and then using this information to open brokerage accounts and used transactions within these accounts to make huge profits due to the change in trading volume and stock prices. Rule of thumb #2, if a job ad sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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