Banks and Financial Institutions

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Target: Your bank's customers

Bogus email presents a massive security threat to online banking since it's directed not at the bank itself, but at the bank's customers. In the end, customer confidence can be destroyed.

The Problem:

• Email is implicitly believed by computer users (This is unlikely to change anytime soon)
• The entire email distribution system is based on trust
• Anti-Virus and anti-SPAM products will NOT protect users from bogus emails
• An estimated 100 million email users and systems are vulnerable to bogus email attacks (yours is probably one of them)
• Reports of attacks and actual losses are constantly reported in the media. This is a very real, very current threat that is not going to go away

The Scammers:

• Are increasingly organized.
  It’s not just kids “having fun”
• Are accumulating information from an
  ever increasing number of people

What can they do?

• Steal identities
• Steal money
• Destroy customer confidence
• Mount a "massed funds withdrawal"
• Fatally compromise the integrity of the banking system