Tom-skype Security Barriers

With the spring Festival approaching, all kinds of "winning" The names of the network fraud began to flourish again. However, these online crooks in the attempt to scam through Skype, but encountered a strong security fort Skype, so that these crooks just "on the job" face the embarrassment of "unemployment."

Swindlers deliberately remind users:

Cautious and fraud-proof

"Dear Skype users hello. During the new year, the company held a random selection activities ' surprise is because you have a double gift package, you have been extracted from the system as the February 2 lucky users. Please login to our designated activity website http//www.sku88.com/skypeio/handle pick < Scrape award Code:588> This is online UMC, do not investigate any area code, award Advisory Service Hotline: 089-869906370 Skype Information Group. This is one of the information that Skype users "small Zhao" received from the lottery.

This information, in order to deceive the user's trust, mostly under the banner of Skype, from the "Skype information tip Group" to the "Skype Lottery team". More let "small Zhao" and other users wry smile is not, these lottery information also often give users "goodwill" reminder message, such as "Note: Please good luck to keep your password and verification code, to avoid other people steal false claims, if there is lost the company does not assume any responsibility!" pay attention to self-protection, beware of being fooled! "

Skype's official First response:

Never released winning information

This reporter interviewed the Chinese official Skype network--tom Online related responsible person. The person in charge said, "Individual criminals imitate the Chinese official Skype website to make fake winning pages, posing as Tom-skype official staff, using Skype software to inform online users to obtain the official award for such activities, cheat users money." ”

The official told reporters that all activities held by Tom-skype will not charge users any fees; Skype China's only official website is http//skype.tom.com, all winning information will only be posted on this site, will not be posted via Skype.

Skype lets Crooks

Just "job" on "unemployment"

To get users out of the lottery, Skype's Chinese website builds security barriers in a variety of ways.

First, the small setting rejects unknown identity information. Skype is an open and green software, and its default setting is to allow anyone to send instant messages to users. Given the rampant prevalence of Internet crooks in China, Skype's Chinese website advises users to "set Skype to, tools-options-privacy-Allow instant messaging from, select ' Only my contacts can send instant messages ', click ' Save ' to prevent unwanted harassment. ”

Second, the use of Skype Chinese website and client software to help users achieve bad information "immunization." Skype Chinese official website in the home page set up pop-up windows, ads in the station and news bulletins and other places to publish Reminders page, the initiative to inform users to prevent deception. At the same time, in the user software client, Skype Chinese official website to set the tab page pop-up, tab ads, news bulletins and other ways to actively publish reminders.

Third, Skype extensive cooperation with antivirus manufacturers, the establishment of the Skype Phishing Virus Library, regularly updated information. At present, including Jinshan poison PA, rising, Jiangmin, Kaspersky, Twister, including a number of internationally renowned anti-virus manufacturers have established a close cooperative relationship with Skype.

"Because the spring festival is approaching, it is the last madness of all kinds of outlaws, I hope users to change the privacy settings as far as possible, improve the awareness of fraud prevention, to avoid unnecessary losses." "The head of Skype's Chinese website finally warned.