Phishing Emails

[Dan Gould]

Well, some of them are. This one, not so much.

Dear PayPal Customer,

To complete your During our Security and Resolution Center

regular maintainance it has come to our attention that your

PayPal Billing Information is out of date. The update process

is very simple and fast one and it must be completed immediately

in order to avoid any future issues - Terms of Service (TOS) violations,

cancellation of service, account suspension or even account termination.

This process is mandatory, and if not completed within the nearest time

your To securely confirm your information please click on the link bellow:

http://210.153.18.87/www.paypal.com/servic...ome=p/login.htm

After you confirm your email address, you can send money for FREE,

accept unlimited credit card and bank account payments, use special tools

for sellers, and receive exclusive customer service hotline help 7 days a week.

You will be subject to a low fees for receiving payments.

Yes, they're getting mighty tricky now - this particular phisher didn't even bother to 'disguise' the link, or attempt to duplicate the appearance of a Paypal message.

[Christiern]

Dan, if you didn't immediately see a zillion red flags go up on the above, you are in trouble.

[7/4]

you actually read this stuff?

[Dan Gould]

Dan, if you didn't immediately see a zillion red flags go up on the above, you are in trouble.

And you're in an equal spot of trouble if you didn't catch the facetiousness of my thread title, or the fact that I pointed out his failure to disguise his phishing URL.

[Christiern]

My "you" was a general one. Sorry, I should have said "one."

In other words--as it were--I don't find the phishers to be so tricky, but, sad to say, there is no dearth of prospective victims. While simply deleting such scam mail is easy, I usually bring up the long heading and forward it all to the alleged source--in this case: spoof@paypal.com.

In fact, I did just that this morning and received the automated acknowledgment.

BTW, your sample is rendered particularly "un-tricky" by the bad English in which it is written.

My favorite spam is the desperate letter from some poor soul who is in dire need for a place to park his/her millions.

[Dan Gould]

Ah, now I see. I didn't think I'd given you a good reason for being ornery. A good way to avoid such confusion in the future is not to start a sentence aimed at the general population with someone's name.

I always report these things to the appropriate "spoof" addy. In fact I've noticed that the new Hotmail has an option for reporting phishing attempts, unfortunately this one showed up at my gmail account.

[Chalupa]

I've been getting one of these practically every time I bid on audio equipment....

Dear Buyer,

I'm the owner of the item that you've recently bided on eBay through the eBay system, Item title: 360 Watt Rotel RB-980BX Power Amplifier RB 980 BX WOW! ,I`ll provide you 5 days money back guarantee, no questions asked. That means within 5 working days you decide if you don't want to keep the item.In order to purchase the deal through eBay all you have to do is to send me exactly those info:

First name:

Last name:

Address:

City/State:

Country:

Zip:

Item#:

I need the details exactly like i have requested, because I`ll forward all the details to eBay and right after that they will contact us with all the instructions to proceed the deal, also you will receive from them instructions about the payment method. Shipping and handling will be supported by me since this is a eBay Offer.

Waiting for your answer!

[Jazzmoose]

Waiting for your answer!

I'll bet!