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VISA phishing scam

Security experts are warning of a new Internet scam that preys on Visa credit card holders, using e-mail and a specially designed Web site to harvest customer account numbers and personal identification numbers. The ruse is the latest example of Phishing scams and comes as one e-mail security company reported that incidents of such scams, which use decoy Web pages and spam messages to trick unsuspecting users into divulging sensitive information, were up 400% this holiday season.

Internet users have been receiving e-mail messages purportedly coming from "Visa International Service." The messages claimed that Visa had implemented a new "security system to help you to avoid possible fraud actions" and asked users to click a link to "reactivate your account,". The message contained a Web link that appeared to direct users to www.visa.com, Visa International's official Web site.

However, security experts who looked at the html message's source code discovered that the link actually directed users to a Web page at an Internet address that doesn't belong to Visa. The Web site has since been taken down.


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