dumb fraud e-mail I received, trying to get bank password

[ima_sinnic]

just received this dumbass e-mail, sent to an e-mail address I haven't used for any official transactions for more than 3 years, from a bank where I've never had an account:

We recently received a request from one jewelry shop in WorldTradePlazza Barcelona / SPAIN to enable the charge of $249,65, on your Visa Debit Card.

THE PAYMENT IS PENDING FOR THE MOMENT.

If the purchase was made by yourself, please ignore or remove this email message.

If you authorize the purchase, the billing will be assumed as an Exception Payment motivated by our Geographical Tracking System. As a result you will be personally contacted by one of our security departments.

If the purchase was not made by you and would like to decline the $249,65 billing to your card, quick-login to your account to decline the transaction: (button: Quick Log in to my acount)
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the linked-to page looks almost identical to a real SunTrust sign-in page--except there is an Asian model pictured and all the links on the page are dead--except of course the spaces for username and password. I tried to enter FUCKYOU as username and BITEME as password but somehow it knew these were invalid.

Anybody stupid enough to fall for this--well, a fool and his/her money are soon parted, right? If it appeared to come from the bank where I really do have a VISA debit card, I'd call the bank, not enter my password on a web page with URL made up of numbers.

</rant>

[cheezus]

1. called Phishing

and next to spam and spyware, it's the biggest threat facing IT right now.

[LoZoccolo]

2. I believe they call it "phishing".

Seems to be on the rise. I got these a few times at work.

[BuelahWitch]

3. I got one of these too

for my US Bank account, only mine was "charged" from Italy ;-) Note the idiot who sends the email uses a comma instead of a period to separate dollars and cents.

[jmowreader]

7. It's not idiotic, it's European

That's really how they do it over there.

[Q3JR4]

4. I get these all the time.

Allows me to laugh at the dumb person's expense.

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Forward it to SunTrust

they almost certainly have someone looking into these, because all the others do.

[ima_sinnic]

6. yes, I will (nt)