WARNING!!! E-MAIL IDENTITY THEFT!!!!

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:11 pm

DON'T FALL FOR IT!!!!

BE CAREFUL!!! it looks legit, but it's obviously not.

Tim Burton · Post by **Tim Burton** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:25 pm

I get tons of those, Master Card, Bank of America, M&I and a few others. Funny, I don't have any accounts with them.

I agree, those people already have all the info they need, so they don't need to "confirm" it.

Don't fall for it.

bigblockmatt · Post by **bigblockmatt** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:03 pm

ya, ive gotten some of those from paypal...

cre8 · Post by **cre8** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:02 pm

They usually put your name Dear Mr. John Doe instead of Dear Costumer blah blah

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:55 am

If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to suspend your account.

That right there is the statement that would make me most suspicious. That just doesn't sound like something Visa or a bank would say to a customer.

Fogey · Post by **Fogey** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:14 am

Just a good old phishing scheme.

Hyper link text can be allmost anything. The actual URL is something else

I delete most all. I can't resist once in a while playin along.

Usernames like: "MrJohnDoe"- "IBF"
Passwords like: "IMarriedJaneDoe"-"CarnivoreTestRun"
One can get creative with account numbers and exp. dates.

If everyone would reply back and gave them bogus info, think about how that would overwhelm them.

sbohdan · Post by **sbohdan** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:37 pm

Fogey wrote: If everyone would reply back and gave them bogus info, think about how that would overwhelm them.

hehehee