There was an interesting article posted by Sure Systems, on microsoft.com concerning the long ongoing Web-scam of spoofed Web-sites that are often involved with phishing scams. Phishing is when cyber-criminals attempt to acquire users’ sensitive online information, usually bank and email-accounts and passwords.
These cyber criminals utilize spoofed sites and other methods (including typo-squatting) to trick users into believing they are at their intended Web pages so they will enter online their personal information and the phishing program will forward that data to the cyber criminal and also forward the user to their actually intended Web-site.
What the Sure Systems article focuses primarily on educating users on how not to fall victim to these cyber-scams by using scam recognition and available programs/applications to decrease your chance of becoming victim to a cyber-criminal.
