Skype

Phishing Scam E-mails

The email claiming to be from Skype appears to be a phishing scam.  Phishing e-mails are e-mails from scam artists who use official looking webpages designed to trick you into believing they are from a corporate website that you have an account with.  Once you are at the site, they will ask you to provide or verify personal information such as bank account information, credit card information, social security information and password information.  If you get such an e-mail, you should delete it and do not provide any of the requested information.  However, if you are not convinced that you have a fraudulent e-mail, please contact Skype directly and explain the e-mail you received.  If you give out any personal information, contact Skype immediately and depending on what information you gave out, it may be wise to take measures to protect against identity theft (e.g. contact credit agencies, close accounts, cleanse computer).  Many e-mail solicitations that appear to be phishing e-mails are set forth throughout this website and below: 

Dear valued skype member:

It has come to our attention that your skype account informations needs to be

updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to

reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes

out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into

any future problems with the online service.

However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.

Please update your records on or before May 14, 2008.

you are requested to update your account informations at the following link.

To update your informations.

 

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Phishing Pages (R-S): Raiffeisen Online, Rainbow Federal Credit Union, RBC Financial Group, Regions Bank, RegionsNet Online Banking, Royal Bank of Canada, Salin Bank, Santa Barbara Bank and Trust, Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union, Santander Central Hispano, Schools Financial Credit Union, Sears Credit Card, Serasa Central, Service Credit Union, Sierra Central Credit Union, 66 Federal Credit Union, Skype, Societe Generale, Sooper Credit Union, Southeast Financial FCU, St. Francis Bank, St. George Bank, State Department Federal Credit Union, Sterling Bank, Sun East Federal Credit Union, SunTrust Bank, Symantec, Synergy Bank