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Corporate Identity ScamA corporate identity scam usually happens in corporate companies. So it is best for corporate companies to be more aware on what a certain corporate identity scam can bring. Scammers usually target big corporate companies for their corporate identity scam. In a recently reported corporate identity scam, the corporate companies of Halifax, Citibank, Barclays, Lloyds TSB, and Natwest just received emails from their Internet banks. These corporate companies have thousands of Internet banking clients from different parts of the world. The emails that they have received contains link redirecting the user to a replicate of the official website of the bank. This website is used by the scammers to extract the client's passwords as well as the usernames. Because of the outrageous spreading of the corporate identity scam, the National Criminal Intelligence Service or NCIS of the UK law enforcement agencies is now fighting this organized crime. NCIS is concerned on the growing phenomenon of the corporate identity scam because the general population of the United Kingdom is often not that computer literate of identifying and telling the difference between a spook website or email and an authentic one. The lack of education to computer surfers of identifying the authenticity of a website or email would make the corporate identity scam relatively simple for the criminals to organized and perform. Also, the criminals will have easier access on gaining the account access of their targeted Internet banking customers. Because of the growing quantity of corporate identity scam, corporate companies are given the advice that they should work towards of reducing the risk for their corporate identity to be abused. The corporate companies can start on ensuring all the various permutations if their names. One example is that if the company received an email from any nuisance sender, the company should have the email checked first by their IT department if it's genuine or not. Also, checking the domain independently on any website if it's registered or not is also a form of safety precaution.
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