henslee
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Wed Mar-29-06 10:35 PM
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Phishers just sent me a fake email from my bank alerting me to strange |
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activity on my card. I did not fall for it. It was a damn good try at extracting data. Comrades, be ever vigil.
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Zorro
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Wed Mar-29-06 10:46 PM
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Just did a whois lookup on bankonlinechase.com (where the hyperlink points you to) and got the registrant's name, address, and phone number --- and found out Mr. Smart Guy's domain was created on 28 March.
It seems astounding that Mr. Smart Guy could be looked up so easily. I hope he has a good explanation when the Chase Bank investigators I forwarded my email to come knocking on his door.
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drm604
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Wed Mar-29-06 10:49 PM
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Name, address, phone, everything. The guy's in freakin Michigan! I thought these people were usually Russian mob or something. Maybe the info is fake?
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Zorro
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Wed Mar-29-06 11:16 PM
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4. Well someone could always send email |
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since there's an email address listed also, and ask him whether he's the dumbass that's spamming the internet.
There's going to be a credit card number associated with buying that domain name, and it would be interesting to find out who that belongs to.
In any case, ol' Craig looks like a real person, since you can find him using whitepages.com at the same listed address.
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Thu Mar-30-06 12:54 PM
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11. I'm guessing that any credit card info would lead to him |
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but that it's info someone else phished from him. He's probably a victim. I doubt that anyone would be dumb enough to use their own info.
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Thu Mar-30-06 01:01 PM
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somebody could just be using him and the domain without his knowledge. It's pretty easy to fake email headers and redirects.
I'm also guessing his ISP has a strict no-spamming policy too. I'd contact them with the information, because they would probably pull the plug on him ASAP if they knew what he's doing.
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henslee
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Wed Mar-29-06 10:53 PM
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3. Can you imagine how many novice internet users get fooled? |
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Thu Mar-30-06 11:29 AM
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so I filled it out completely.
boy will he be suprised when that account number red flags with "call the police"
bad luck.
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Thu Mar-30-06 08:12 AM
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5. A co-worker received one of those e-mails yesterday also. |
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Luckily, he's aware of all the e-mail scams going around.
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Thu Mar-30-06 08:24 AM
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6. Simple solution: Don't give your bank your e-mail address. |
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Then you KNOW any "message from them" is a fake.
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henslee
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Thu Mar-30-06 11:24 AM
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8. Come to think of it Redstone...I didn't. They were just phishing and |
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Thu Mar-30-06 09:22 AM
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7. Yeah..me too..what's hilarious to me is they used |
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my other email address..one that we don't use for our online banking..my mail filter automatically sent it to the junk folder.
You're right..they are getting darn good at their attempts. This was a paragraph in mine after they said there were several fraudulent attempts to access the account.
"We now require you to re-validate your account information to us. If this is not completed by March 31, 2006, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent activity.We thank you for your cooperation in this manner. In order to confirm your Online Bank records, we may require some specific information from you."
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Thu Mar-30-06 11:45 AM
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10. I got one of those a few days ago |
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- only problem was, it wasn't my bank anymore. Ooops.
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