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Email Scammers Aim at Military Families

The Android operating system’s support for multi-tasking enables a wide range of mobile security functionality to run in the background, including virus scanning and automated backups. A new phishing scam is taking aim at members of the U.S. military and their families, using unsolicited emails purportedly from USAA, one of the nation’s largest financial services […]

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Larry Barrett

Nov 3, 2010

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The Android operating system’s support for multi-tasking enables a wide range of mobile security functionality to run in the background, including virus scanning and automated backups.

A new phishing scam is taking aim at members of the U.S. military and their families, using unsolicited emails purportedly from USAA, one of the nation’s largest financial services and insurance companies, to trick people into divulging their personal information to identity thieves.

And this isn’t the first time it’s happened.

USAA, which caters primarily to retired and active duty military members and their families, and the Navy Federal Credit Union in May were hit by a similar phishing scam that also attempted to extract social security numbers, credit card numbers, birth dates and other information used to either pilfer bank accounts or steal unsuspecting users’ identities.

This time around, according to an advisory on security software maker AppRiver’s website, the con artists are sending a slew of unsolicited emails with subject titles, such as “USAA Notification” or “Urgent Message for USAA customer” in the hope of getting just a small fraction of a percentage of recipients to click on a link embedded in the missive.

Read the rest at eSecurity Planet.

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Larry Barrett

Larry Barrett is a freelance journalist and blogger who has covered the information technology and business sectors for more than 15 years. Most recently, he served as the online news editor for 1105 Media's Office Technology Group and as the online managing editor for SourceMedia's Investment Advisory Group publications Financial Planning, On Wall Street, and Bank Investment Consultant. He was also a senior writer and editor at Ziff Davis Media's Baseline Magazine, winner of the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award, and ZDNet. In addition, he's served as a senior writer and editor at prominent technology and business websites including CNET, InternetNews.com, Multichannel News, and the San Jose Business Journal.

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