This is my PSA (Public Service Announcement) for the week and it is about something pretty scary…Phishing Scams. Several years ago, I was a victim of identity theft. It was not a pleasant experience but it left me wiser and more cautious. It was done the old fashioned way of swiping some receipts and looking up some account information (local retailer). Nowadays, identity thieves have become much better in their “art.” I have first hand experience now…but I wasn’t a victim.
So, here is what happened, I received the following email:
It looked much more legit than others that I have seen. There were no huge gramatical errors or spelling errors (although the writing was pretty bad). So, I figured that I would check to see if Bank of American had shut down the site yet. To my suprise, they hadn’t! Thus, it became my mission to document this as a warning for others.
So, using Safari (because I have no faith in using Internet Explorer for things like this because of ActiveX installers and such), I went to the site and documented it. It looks identical to the current Bank of America site, and all of the links (with the exception of the login section in the upper left) were valid. Here is what it looked like:
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