When they go on the link in the e mail, it brings them to a site with the name “adobe” in the domain name, giving it some “credibility”. Top Stories : iPad 2 Review, Atrix Review,
While the scam has surfaced previously in the past, each day it comes forward, it claims some new victims, and usually those few victims are abundant for the scammers to manufacture a profit. There on the site, users are asked to supply personal info such as their contact details and credit card info. Adobe has even alerted users about such scams before, so you can read their blog for more details.
Adobe Acrobat phishing scam surfaces again, By Ubergizmo. There’s nothing that users can do about it, except to be wary of the sort of hyperlinks they visit and sites they visit, and an upgrade to a browser that has anti-phishing features wouldn’t hurt.
Cloudmark, a shield provider has just posted about a new phishing scam trying to pass off as an Adobe Acrobat website. It arrives in the structure of an newsletter telling users to upgrade their version of Adobe Acrobat Reader to the full version of Adobe Acrobat.
