Voice phishing

Vishing is a form of Internet fraud trick. The name stands for " voice phishing " and is derived from the English word for carp harvesting ( fishing ) as well as the method of VoIP telephony used.

Here, by automated phone calls trying to mislead the receiver and credit card information, to move for release of access, passwords, etc.. The scammers make this the low cost of Internet telephony and call -to-use automated countless phone numbers. To effectively prevent vishing, it is advisable to telephone calls, is that requests personal information, to quit. Instead, a call to the company in question should be, to inquire whether in fact there is a request.

Another variant of vishing is to send them by spam -mailing a phone number to many e -mail recipients, and these messages are provided with the request to report at the above telephone number. There, the caller will be asked by a recorded message that you provide personal information. A particularly sneaky itself represents this procedure because it takes advantage of the advice of many financial institutions, did not respond to e- mails, but to look for telephone contact.

In 2006 there were in Germany to vishing attacks against customers of banks and savings banks. Con artists, so-called Visher, searched the internet for bank details and phone numbers. Then she then called the bank customers by telephone. The scammers posed as employees of the respective bank and asked the bank customer according to his online banking access data ( PIN, SSN and account number) and performed with these fraudulent transfers.