I love the ones that are supposedly coming from "your" bank and they need your account information for verification and computer upgrade requirements. The real kicker is that after you give them the info they say not to access your account on line or at the bank for 48 hours! That would be so that they can clean you out and be gone spending your money before you know it....nice touch - not really.
I love getting these. From pretenders of eBay or banks. They are so obvious as fakes. Usually the subject line has a spelling or grammar error to start it all. But I never realized just how many banks there were in the USA. Until I began getting these......... I love checking the IP addresses to see where they are coming from or being spoofed. Korea, Spain, The Netherlands, podunk islands in the Caribbean......... This would not be happening, except for the fact that amongst us are so many stupid people who respond to the con artists. Which encourages those scammers to keep on doing it. Boxcab E50
I've been getting about two a day from "Paypal" with a link to click on--DON'T DO IT! Virus with no extra charge. Paypal acknowledges it ain't them and it's a scam. There are way too many of these things going around. I feel sorry for the little old lady not familiar with webscams.
this is all about 'social engineering' . just a different way of hacking. try to get as much information as possible. very easy. someone stated that usually on face-to-face conversations informations are handled more confidential. wrong. let me give you two examples. use a mobile phone, caller id suppression on. call someone in a large company. tell them you're one of the computer network troubleshooters and you need their login/password for further investigations of network problems. 99% of all employees will give you these informations. "hi, i'm from ibm/hp/dell and urgently need to fix one of your server". in most cases these people are in your server room within minutes. usually left alone. i bet you agree to both of these cases
Your best bet in finding where these emails are generated is the message properties. The list of servers processing the email on it's way to you is there and the source tends to be from the Yahoo! domain more often than not. I don't see your friendly bank using Yahoo! as it's email server. Also, you can run a check on the ISP the links are from. APNIC and ARIN are two ISP registries which give you the DNS ranges ISP's are allocated. Again, very handy for discovering your bank's servers are located in Korea or Romania!!
I've had plenty of those. The newest one I got hit with, _supposedly_ from Ebay, was the one telling me that my Ebay account had been suspended indefinately. And not being able to create a new account either!! All because I didn't update my Ebay information. Password, banking info etc.....Which was sent to Ebay and confirmed as a false E-Mail. Besides, I was still selling a few items at the time I recieved this one! I get one, I'll foward to Ebay, then delete.
it is amazing how many people are still willing to give up cc info so easy. i take a few phone orders every week, and will sometimes write the cc info wrong. when i call the customer back they will give me the number just like that. i stop them and have them call me, warning them of the danger of giving that kind of info to someone that calls. another, check cards. the cc processing company charges an additional 1-1/2% if a card holder signs the slip instead of keying the pin . when i ask people if they know thier pin, they give it to me. i say oh, no never do that. the new cc processing machines will verify the security code, street address and zip code on phone/mail orders. i check them all to protect my customers. david
Read all the posts and like anyone and it seems everyone who uses the net - got my share of this crap. But, nothing is new - just packaged in an up to date fashion. As far back as I can remember (that's getting to be a shorter time span every year as I move along on this trip) in the early 60's the LAPD used to warn residents that the WILLIAMS FAMILY were on their way with their usual scams - roofing jobs, repaving deals and dog nappings - yes dog nappings - a big business back then and I am sure still. Iooffered the perp who stole my dog a $500.00 reward for a ugly mutt - up she popped at my door without even asking for my address. Make a long story short - NO ONE could have caught her - she ran that fast to a waiting car which sped away. Now in Reno - the smae message come to light fromt he RPD - every year - and still folks get taken for their hard earned assets. SOMETHING for NOTHING is the motivator I am sure - after all we would ALL like everything to be free - but learn early - that you work for what you need/want and put some in the bank for whenever it rains - and it will - one day. These posts should made available to ALL of 'the brothers' out there - we are a family - kind of. Toots
As they say about a fool and his money.....There was a feature on the local TV station the other day about identity theft. A local college student had her ID stolen. Turns out she had put her name and SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER on a petition being circulated at the college. With your SS#, people can open any kind of account using your credit rating, and leave you owing the charges.
I recently made friends with a very nice Nigerian prince via the internet... Oh crap!!!! Where's my money??? Yeah, I actually know people who fell for the aol Intsant messenger trick of sending a message claiming to be aol and asking for their password and then logging on and trashing the persons acount just for the fun of it. Ha ha the enlargment thingie. LOL I'm trying to imagine myself walking around with a giant dong harness on as if noone will notice that I have something that looks like a tennis racket in my pants. LMAO those were too funny. I'm thinking for halloween next year I may have to build something like that and wear it for a costume. LOL ok sorry for my moment of silliness but those ads just made me laugh so hard everytime I got them because I knew someone out there was actually buying one.
Man, I cannot believe how many millionaires reside in Nigeria and are willing to part with their money. NOT.
I was stunned to learn of my family inheritance. All along I'd believed we were just poor folk of English-Irish-German heritage. When they were actually wealthy Africans. Yesterday, I cashed my check for $27 Million, from Solicitor- Prince Jonathan Oogoomaboogoo of Nigeria. It came just as he promised. Now I'm rich, too! I've already bought a Rolls-Royce, private jet, yacht, and more. I sure can't understand why you guys are so worried. Boxcab E50
Boxcab, Is Prince Jonathan Oogoomaboogoo related to Princess Lorana Smith-Oogoomaboogoo ? She's my cousin!
Mike, I think that you are thinking of Lorana Smith-Oogoomabooma, not Oogoomaboogoo (also not to be confused with the Sri Lankan singer Charles Oogoobabooboo). Sure, you remember his one hit wonder, "Who do the Oogabooboo like you do?" Russ
Hey I almost got a collectable one of those! A guy said he had to part with a rare one that have an unusual flaw in the lettering. HE said it was worth thousands new. Only wanted $350 for the Polex. Kind of wonder if that would work on the collectable train scene... I've got new mint condition Micro-Drains.
