Protect Against Internet Phishing Scams
PhishGuard is a FREE service that detects and rapidly
disables Internet "phishing" or "spoofing" attacks designed to steal
critical financial data. PhishGuard works with all popular browsers
on Microsoft Windows computers.
Phishing attacks use fraudulent websites and emails
that mimic well-known organizations in order to trick unsuspecting Internet users.
A simple login or account number entry screen becomes a sophisticated trap. By
assuming you are dealing with a trusted party, you can reveal financial information
including credit card numbers,
bank accounts, passwords, and social security numbers to the "bad guys".
This type of attack is very difficult for the typical person to detect, as
the scammer’s emails and websites mimic the exact style and graphics of
the spoofed company, and appear genuine. Sensitive financial information
disclosed to scammers is used to make fraudulent financial
transactions and to enable long-term identity theft.
Organizations recently impersonated by phishers have included eBay,
Citibank, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), PayPal, AOL, Visa,
Bank One, EarthLink, Microsoft, AT&T, Yahoo, Chase, and numerous others.
You can view examples here.
PhishGuard is a simple, free software service. The
first person to discover a suspected phishing scam can report the offending
email or URL (website address), literally in seconds. There is no need to
divulge any confidential information to the scammers. Within minutes, our
monitoring team has verified the scam, and added it to the ScamBase™
database. Updates to the database are rapidly distributed to every
participating computer, effectively immunizing them against the newly
discovered scam.
The PhishGuard system utilizes the
collective observations of Internet users plus a rapid server-based
submission and distribution system. This unique
architecture dramatically reduces the chance that any phishing scam can “slip through
the cracks” and blindside an unsuspecting Internet user.
For a step-by-step example of how PhishGuard works, visit our
Products page, or download and install your copy of PhishGuard now.
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