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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://buddyguard.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Safety In The News : Financial Fraud &amp;amp; Scams</title><link>http://buddyguard.com/blogs/safety_news/archive/category/1016.aspx</link><description /><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)</generator><item><title>An Ominous Milestone: 100 Million Data Leaks</title><link>http://buddyguard.com/blogs/safety_news/archive/2006/12/18/54.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:08:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ec68295e-5ae4-45e4-b204-be9a95bc53ca:54</guid><dc:creator>Linda Criddle</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://buddyguard.com/blogs/safety_news/comments/54.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://buddyguard.com/blogs/safety_news/commentrss.aspx?PostID=54</wfw:commentRss><description>18 Dec 2006 Summary A sobering milestone was crossed last week when the count of personal records compromised by companies and educational institutions in the last two years surpassed the 100 million mark (out of a U.S. population of over 300 million)....(&lt;a href="http://buddyguard.com/blogs/safety_news/archive/2006/12/18/54.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://buddyguard.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=54" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://buddyguard.com/blogs/safety_news/archive/tags/Financial+Fraud+_2600_amp_3B00_+Scams/default.aspx">Financial Fraud &amp;amp; Scams</category></item><item><title>Phishers hijack IM accounts </title><link>http://buddyguard.com/blogs/safety_news/archive/2006/11/21/32.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:46:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ec68295e-5ae4-45e4-b204-be9a95bc53ca:32</guid><dc:creator>Linda Criddle</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://buddyguard.com/blogs/safety_news/comments/32.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://buddyguard.com/blogs/safety_news/commentrss.aspx?PostID=32</wfw:commentRss><description>17 Oct 2006 Summary Phishing scams continue to rise. The Anti-Phishing Working Group , established to fight phishing fraud, noted that people reported 26,150 phishing Web sites to the group in August 2006. (Phishing uses a sneaky form of spam that appears...(&lt;a href="http://buddyguard.com/blogs/safety_news/archive/2006/11/21/32.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://buddyguard.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=32" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://buddyguard.com/blogs/safety_news/archive/tags/Financial+Fraud+_2600_amp_3B00_+Scams/default.aspx">Financial Fraud &amp;amp; Scams</category></item></channel></rss>