{"id":1546,"date":"2007-10-05T14:11:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T12:11:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-05T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T12:11:48","slug":"yahoo-tackles-notorious-ebay-paypal-phishing-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/1546-yahoo-tackles-notorious-ebay-paypal-phishing-scams.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo tackles notorious eBay-PayPal &#8216;phishing&#8217; scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo said it collaborated with eBay, which owns online financial transactions service PayPal, to devise a way to block the fake messages from the US Internet firm&#39;s free e-mail accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The scam, referred to as &quot;phishing&quot; because it relies on hooking victims with deceptive e-mail messages, is perpetual online bane.<\/p>\n<p>The messages typically purports to be from PayPal or eBay and claim the recipients&#39; accounts with the services will be cancelled if they don&#39;t validate password, credit card or other sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo, eBay and PayPal are installing DomainKeys Identified Mail technology that verifies messages actually come from eBay or PayPal before delivering them.<\/p>\n<p>The technology identifies domains from which messages are sent, meaning it should help identify sources of scam emails, according to Yahoo.<\/p>\n<p>The enhancement is to be phased-in globally during the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;While there is clearly no silver bullet for solving the problems of phishing and identity theft, today&#39;s announcement is great news,&quot; said PayPal chief information security officer Michael Barrett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo announced on Thursday it will start thwarting scammers that send bogus eBay or PayPal account e-mails to trick people into revealing passwords and credit card numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}