The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a notice warning people that e-mails referring to a state vaccination program are false. These are phishing attempts, and they are trying to get your personal data by setting up a “personal H1N1 vaccination profile.” From the CDC:
The messages request that users must create a personal H1N1 (swine flu) Vaccination Profile on the cdc.gov website. The message then states that anyone that has reached the age of 18 has to have his/her personal Vaccination Profile on the cdc.gov site.
The CDC has NOT implemented a state vaccination program requiring registration on www.cdc.gov. Users that click on the email are at risk of having malicious code installed on their system. CDC reminds users to take the following steps to reduce the risk of being a victim of a phishing attack:
- Do not follow unsolicited links and do not open or respond to unsolicited email messages.
- Use caution when visiting un-trusted websites.
- Use caution when entering personal information online.
The page seems to be on a rolling basis, so if other news comes up, the above passage will be pushed down (use Ctrl+F to do a search, I guess).
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