Help Fight Spam and Phishing
“Phishing” (pronounced “fishing”) is when criminals use e-mail to try to lure you to fake websites, where you’re asked to disclose confidential financial and personal information, like passwords, credit card account numbers or Social Security Numbers.
The most common type of phish is an e-mail threatening some dire consequence if you do not immediately log in and take action.
If anyone does not find these things annoying, or an attack on American corporations and capitalism, feel free to stop reading. But if you would like to help fight these sort of emails and scams, you can do your part.
Many banks and financial companies are the targets of phishing scams. Because of this, most banks have their own web pages with directions on how to help them fight phishing. Most have an email to forward phishing emails to if you do receive something you do not trust. The banks then attack and reclaim the domains mentioned within the emails via UDRP or other measures.
Here is a list of the larger banks and their phishing educational web pages and emails.
- Citibank: emailspoof@citigroup.com
- Chase (JPMorgan Chase): fraudfile@chase.com
- Wells Fargo: reportphish@wellsfargo.com
- Bank of America: abuse@bankofamerica.com
- US Bank: fraud_help@usbank.com
Also, the IRS is a common target too. If you receive a phishing email from someone posing as the IRS, please forward it to phishing@irs.gov, using instructions contained in an article titled “Protect Yourself from and Report Suspicious emails or Phishing Schemes.” To date, taxpayers have forwarded more than 33,000 emails to the IRS representing more than 1500 scams.
Regarding spam in general, the FTC has unveiled a new email address to forward your spam to, if you wish to report spam. Forward any spam emails to Spam@uce.gov.
“The FTC and its law enforcement partners use the database to generate cases against people who use spam to spread false or misleading information about their products or services.
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