The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a warning on
Saturday over the recent proliferation of "phishing" scams. The
commission reminded users of online banking services to check
their bank's Web site address before engaging in any
transactions or information exchanges in order to protect
themselves from being "phished" by cyber-criminals. The FSC's
warning came after the technology crimes prevention and control
center of the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) revealed it
had recently discovered that some computer hackers from China
have been acquiring online banking users' personal information,
such as bank account numbers and passwords, through false bank
Web sites. Anti-technology crime police officers said that
"phishers" copy Web site pages of legitimate banks to trick
users into disclosing sensitive personal information. People who
do not have the habit of checking the official Web site address
of their banks could easily be cheated as the false bank Web
sites look almost identical to the rea