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2005-08-22

PHARMING Plagues Seniors

*PHARMING* unlike “Phishing” doesn’t rely on you unwittingly opening a scammer’s email.  Instead, it redirects Internet users without their knowledge from frequently used sites such as financial institutions and credit card firms to look-alike sites where identity thieves capture login names, passwords, account numbers and other data.

“Pharmers” inject a code that will infect your PC via n email attachment that you open OR if you make a one-letter typo when typing in a Web Address.

Another “pharming” threat is DNS (domain name system) poisoning-which can transfer a large group of internet users to counterfeit sites.

SELF DEFENSE:

ONLY open an email attachment when it comes from a source known to you.

Make sure the web address starts with “https:”,  not “http”  “https” indicates it is a  secure site.

Check for the latest anti-spyware  that targets “pharming” and ask your ISP what steps they are taking to ward off pharming poisoning.