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“Phishing” Scams are Evolving…Now It’s “Vishing”
Society’s underbelly continues to display creativity in the development of new ways to defraud the unsuspecting, and this constant search for innovative scams has now yielded an approach labeled “vishing,” with “phishing” now conflated with voice-based approaches to start the fraud contact. It’s not really a new approach, since telephone contact has long been a staple in the criminal world, but it is growing in popularity, as reported by the Forbes contributor John Wasik in a post on their website. Wasik cites statistics from the Cybercrime Support Network, and provides some guidance on protecting oneself from “vishing” schemes in his post, which you can access here.