Citing Cyber Crime, FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online
Robert McMillan writes on PC World:
The head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has stopped banking online after nearly falling for a phishing attempt.More here.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said he recently came "just a few clicks away from falling into a classic Internet phishing scam" after receiving an e-mail that appeared to be from his bank.
"It looked pretty legitimate," Mueller said Wednesday in a speech at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club. "They had mimicked the e-mails that the bank would ordinarily send out to its customers; they'd mimicked them very well."
In phishing scams, criminals send spam e-mails to their victims, hoping to trick them into entering sensitive information such as usernames and passwords at fake Web sites.
Though he stopped before handing over any sensitive information, the incident put an end to Mueller's online banking.
posted by Fergie @ 10/07/2009 06:21:00 PM
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