Current Activity - APWG Fax Back Phishing Education Program

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US-CERT Current Activity

APWG Fax Back Phishing Education Program

Original release date: August 25, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Last revised: August 25, 2010 at 1:16 pm


In an effort to respond to a growing public threat by offline phishers
that conduct various scams via fax, the Anti-phishing Working Group
(APWG) has partnered with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to create
the APWG Fax Back Phishing Education Program. This program is designed
to provide telecommunications companies and Fax over Internet Protocol
(FoIP) hosting firms with information that can be used to educate
consumers about these types of scams. Offline phishing differs from
traditional phishing in that it involves sending emails with
attachments or direct faxes to individuals or businesses and is not
done strictly online. Recipients of offline phishing scams are coerced
to complete the fake documents and fax them back or be penalized.

In conjunction with IRS's Online Fraud Detection and Prevention (OFDP)
group, APWG created a fax coversheet that can be downloaded by
carriers and used to notify victims of offline phishing. This fax
coversheet also provides links to other APWG resources which allow the
victims to submit a complaint directly to the appropriate
clearinghouse.

More information about the APWG Fax Back Phishing Education Program
and the advisory fax coversheet can be found at the following
  * APWG Fax Back Phishing Education Program Page
  * Advisory Coversheet Page (PDF)

Relevant Url(s):
<http://education.apwg.org/faxback/faxbackpage.pdf>

<http://education.apwg.org/faxback/index.html>

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