Phishing Over The Phone

Phishing scams are prevalent and continue to proliferate. In traditional scams, miscreants try to pilfer personal information by sending spam email with links to a malicious website, crafted to look like a site belonging to a trusted service provider. The phone scams are a new twist, made possible by cheap internet-based telephone services, Cloudmark said.

Anti-spam technology can block the email scams, Cloudmark said. The company urged people who do receive the messages to notify their service providers immediately. As a precaution, people should not dial phone numbers received in an email message and should double-check and dial the numbers printed on ATM and credit cards instead, it advised.