PHISHING Warning

[FullerH]

I just received a phishing attempt and thought that I'd pass it along as a warning to others. Please be aware that this is the sort of thing that gets sent and do NOT respond to it.

It is from Lynn Delaney [akstcbabynoursmnsdgs@babynours.com] and reads as follows:

Thank you for your loan request, which we recieved yesterday,

we'd like to inform you that we are accepting your application, bad credit ok, We are ready to give you a $245,000 loan for a low month payment.

Approval process will take only 1 minute.

Please visit the confirmation link below and fill-out our short 30 second form.

www.?????.com

 

[FullerH]

Just received an identical request except that it was from:
Antoinette Pryor [akstcgafmcmnsdgs@gafmc.com]
What a bunch of ****!

 

[Totally Judy]

How come I didn't get one?

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
Guess I'll go eat worms,
Long, thin, slimy ones; Short, fat, juicy ones,
Itsy, bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms.

Down goes the first one, down goes the second one,
Oh how they wiggle and squirm.
Up comes the first one, up comes the second one,
Oh how they wiggle and squirm.

 

[Gollnick]

The loan offer one is a good example of phishing fraud. Another that is common is the "Please update/revalidate your account" scam.

The best of these look very "official", very authentic. I almost fell for one the other day that apeared to be from Comcast, my telephone and internet provider. It was very slick and I was about to click when I remembered phishing. When I checked the raw sourcecode of the e-mail, sure enough, the link was to some site in Taiwan. I forwarded it to Comcast for investigation.

I case you don't know what phishing is, it's an e-mail that encourages you to go to some website to apply for a loan or update your account or some such thing. The website will appear to be legitimate. You will willingly enter your name, address, date of birth, SSN, etc. thinking it's ok. But you are not applying for a loan or updating your bank account records; you are registering yourself on a list of future identity theft victims.

 

[L6steel]

I get crap like that everyday!

 

[FullerH]

Thanks, Chuck, for pointing out what I had assumed (ASSUME= Makes an ASS of U & ME) but should not.

 

[Daniel Dorn]

I received one the other day from "ebay" that I was sure was real, until I thought it through and realized that I don't have that address on file with ebay. I actually spent about a minute contemplating a response, and was just about to click the link.

They had the look down perfect, with their "superflous" add-ons, like current auctions I might be interested in, and pics with links. VERY well done. Well... wait, maybe it really was from ebay... Oh, well...

No! It couldn't have been! Wrong email address! Man, they're good. I'm still confused.

Daniel

 

[Cougar Allen]

Real banks, credit card companies, ebay, paypal, etc. don't send you email asking for your passwords, account numbers, credit card numbers, social security number, anything like that. They don't call you on the phone and ask either. That's all you need to know to recognize phishing. No, there are no exceptions.

While I'm here, real Nigerian generals don't ask strangers to help them get their money out of the country either. If they need any help of that kind they can get it from someone they know.