phishing

For some reason this is causing a re-direct when we view it in the mod only section so having to nuke the content. I have saved a plain text copy of the contents if you want it. Worked out the problem - restored the original text. This morning I received an email purporting to be a...

Almost seven years ago, changing from a company I'd worked with for fifteen years (and had the same email address wherever I moved in the world), I opted to mimic the address structure of firstname.lastname@ companyname.com I have business contacts that date back forty years and my name is...

Sure! I'll click on that link! How can there be a message called re:8 if I never sent one called 8 to begin with? Seriously - does anybody fall for these retarded emails anymore? I submit that if they do, they deserve what they get. Also - I got it a full 5 hours IN THE FUTURE! Why could...

I thought readers might be tickled by this effusion which landed in my email box today (Chello is the old name that my ISP was known by - although it changed about two years ago): "This message comes from the Chello Administrator, IT service alonze subscribers.You email account to provide us...

I've just received a fairly obvious phishing e-mail purporting to be from Cahoot. Rather endearingly it says; "cahoot will never send you an email asking you to enter, reconfirm or change your security details or other personal information. If you receive such an email or if you believe that...

New to me: Don't know why but it strikes me as funny that someone is phishing for WoW accounts.

An acquaintance of mine loaded some photos onto the the Tagged.Com website and unbeknownst to him, the website sent invitations to everyone in his personal contact list. I followed the invitation but balked at giving my address, the last four digits of my Social Security number, and a cell...

Just found the following in my inbox. This is one I haven't heard about before. The domains seem to be right - both bmw.co.uk and bmw.com are genuine domains belonging to the Bayerische Motor Werken. So, assuming that I haven't just won a fortune in a competition I have no recollection of...

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Just noticed that Firefox 2.0 (which I started using a few days ago) has an installed feature that warns me that I have clicked on a webpage that is a "forgery" website designed to collect personal information (in this case, a spoof of PayPal's log in). This is what the Firefox notice appears like:

Some Russian crooks tried to steal my PayPal account info twice this week. :mad: I did all the right things -- I reported it to Paypal, my credit card company, my ISP and the FTC. The second time I even reported it to AT&T World Services and Hotmail/MSN because the fake web site was located...

I've just seen this warning on another forum:

Please send me a PM if you are a Physician or are involved in any direct way with human healthcare. I am a Skeptic Family Physician in the USA and tried to find out if there were other physcians in the Skeptic Forum. It seems that in that Forum there are very few that would acknowledge...

I received an eBay phishing message that I don't understand. When I click on the graphic, it takes me to an login page that appears to be a legitimate eBay page. Netcraft thinks it's fine. My username is filled in correctly, along with some password, which also makes me think it's really eBay...

Anyone loaded this yet? Comments on use? Value? (I understand it's available for IE too).

I received an email today, supposedly from "support@citibank.com", but which was pretty obviously an attempt to steal my account information. They had stolen graphics from the actual citibank site, and much of the wording as well. Many links in the email led to pages on the actual citibank...

I just received this email, which is a particularly well-executed scam if you're not really thinking about it. It purports to be PayPal asking you to verify your personal information. Don't fall for it! It takes you to a website that spoofs the http://www.paypal.com/ address in the link but is...