DUES - if not paid to date, please see our Treasurer. The "TEA" in December at "The Cookie Cottage" was lovely-- good to see old friends and meet new ones. Thanks, Ruth, for coordinating.
Special "Thanks" to Louise for the Christmas goodies - beautifully wrapped as usual. |
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IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS
Women's Referral Central - (800) 322-8092 Consumer Affairs - (609) 989-6671 Woman Space (domestic violence) (609) 394-9000
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Jessica’s twin boys are doing great and are now 14 and 15 pounds each. Give her a call to say hello. |
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Pension News - July 2007 (Repeating as this is very important) Phishing:
A New Kind of Identity Theft P hishing is a relatively new strategy used by criminals to
obtain your personal information over cyberspace. It is when identity
thieves, called phishers, use e-mails and the
Internet to masquerade as a company you normally do business with in order to
fraudulently obtain personal information, like your user name, passwords,
credit card numbers, or bank account numbers. A phisher
might send the potential victim a fraudulent e-mail that appears to be from a
legitimate Internet address. It contains a justifiable request, 'such as
asking you to verify your personal information or account details by clicking
on a link in the e-mail, followed by a negative consequence if the
information is not provided, such as the discontinuation or suspension of
your account. If you fall for the scam and disclose the requested
information, the sender has achieved his or her goal of obtaining your
personal information to use for identity theft crimes. In the newest phishing
scam, spear phishing, the targeted victim is a
single user or a department within an organization. The victim receives an
e-mail that appears to be legitimately addressed from someone else in a
position of trust within that company, like the company's human resources
manager. The e-mail requests sensitive information, like log-in IDs or
passwords. With this data, hackers can gain entry into secured networks. To avoid being phished, always delete e-mails from unknown or suspicious senders, and
never click the links within the text of such e-mails; then empty your
e-mail trash box. Notify the company from which the e-mail appears to come,
if possible; most companies want to know if their company name is being used
to scam people, so they can take action to protect their reputation. Finally,
you can report instances of phishing to the Federal
Trade Commission (FTC) and your State and local authorities. For more
information, visit the National Consumers League Web site, at www.phishinginfo.org |
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