I have had several conversations with doctors regarding some of their colleagues being the target of phishing scams. For those of you who are not familiar with the term phishing, it is defined by webopida.com as
The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a Web site where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has. The Web site, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the user’s information.
An example of a recent physician targeted phishing scam can be found at FierceHealthIT with a related story here .
Some tips to identify and avoid phishing scams can be found at the American Medical Association website.
