FBI warns of SMS and phone-based phishing scams !!

Social networking sites and search engines are expected to be hit hard by cybercriminals this holiday season, but the FBI is warning consumers about two other threats they may encounter – so called “smishing” and “vishing” scams.

Both threats are variations of phishing, but smishing uses SMS texts to initiate the scam, while vishing uses automated phone calls.Reports of these types of scams date