FBI is hard at work to round up the people who have been scamming people of their bank accounts’ information. People were tricked to click onto links in emails that sent the clickers to fraudulent websites made to look like the official banks’ websites, and from there the fake websites requested sensitive information. I had seen couple emails of this type before, without even taking a second look at the malicious emails, I clicked a delete button to send the malicious emails to the trash world.
I suggest that if you are doing online banking, it’s best to type in the real bank’s website address in the browser’s address bar directly and not to click on any link even though an email may come from a real bank. In fact, you can do this for almost every online service. Another trick is to hover a mouse pointer over a link, and check to see what is the link looks like on the bottom of your web browser. If the link in an email looks complicated and has many weird characters that follow the main part of the domain name, I suggest that you not even think about clicking on such a link at all, but instead type a real website address directly into the browser’s address bar to look for the information in your account that way.
Vinh Nguyen
