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How corporate America imitates phone fraudsters and puts consumers at risk.
Posted on February 23, 2008
It appears that major corporations, like AT&T and AMEX, are using the same techniques as phone phishing scammers to contact customers. On Monday, this will be the topic of the SquawkBox call. With telephony security experts, we'll be discussing phone phishing, and how the latest actions by major corporations AT&T and AMEX to name two are exposing consumers to phone fraud.So what is phone phishing? In a phone phishing scam crooks typically pose as a trusted consumer entity, such as a phone company or a bank. Using an autodialer, they leave messages on potential victims phones as...
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