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What is vishing?

By pepe09 Asked Feb 26 2008 7:25AM
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by iwnit on Feb 26, 2008 at 7:28 am Permalink

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"Vishing is the criminal practice of using social engineering and Voice over IP (VoIP) to gain access to private personal and financial information from the public for the purpose of financial reward. The term is a combination of "voice" and phishing. Vishing exploits the public's trust in landline telephone services, which have traditionally terminated in physical locations which are known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer. The victim is often unaware that VoIP allows for caller ID spoofing, inexpensive, complex automated systems and anonymity for the bill-payer. Vishing is typically used to steal credit card numbers or other information used in identity theft schemes from individuals.

Vishing is very hard for legal authorities to monitor or trace. To protect themselves, consumers are advised to be highly suspicious when receiving messages directing them to call and provide credit card or bank numbers. Rather than provide any information, the consumer is advised to contact their bank or credit card company directly to verify the validity of the message."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishing
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Avatar pepe09 Feb, 26 2008 at 07:39 AM
I just heard this term today. Nice answer. Thanks!
Avatar iwnit Feb, 26 2008 at 07:40 AM
pepe08: you are welcome!
Avatar Cognition wears a COAT of Love Feb, 29 2008 at 05:27 AM
I had never heard the term either, I knew with the VoIP that a number of their choice can show up on the caller ID. I never thought of how it could affect your perception of who it was on the other end! Very scary, what will the criminal mind think of next.

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by MrNatural Abstractor of the Quintessence on Oct 21, 2009 at 3:49 am Permalink

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It's an expression of hope. Example:

"I vas vishing you vould go out vith me this veekend. Ve could haff some vine and viskey and vait and see vhat happens."

 
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by amit khurana on Oct 21, 2009 at 3:32 am Permalink

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Vishing is the criminal practice of using social engineering over the telephone system, most often using features facilitated by Voice over IP (VoIP), to gain access to private personal and financial information from the public for the purpose of financial reward. The term is a combination of "voice" and phishing. Vishing exploits the public's trust in landline telephone services, which have traditionally terminated in physical locations which are known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer. The victim is often unaware that VoIP makes formerly difficult-to-abuse tools/features of caller ID spoofing, complex automated systems (IVR), low cost, and anonymity for the bill-payer widely available. Vishing is typically used to steal credit card numbers or other information used in identity theft schemes from individuals.
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