Phishing

[Gordon B]

My wife got an email addressed to her that read,

We recently reviewed your account, and we suspect an unauthorized ATM - based transactions on your account. Therefore, as a preventive measure we have temporary limited your access to sensitive CitiBank features.

To ensure that your account is not compromised please login to CitiBank Internet Banking by clicking this link, verify your identity and your online account will be reactivated by our system.


- Click on: http://online.citibankJC.com/logon/logon.asp?dd=1
- Enter your personal information.
- Verify your identity with CitiBank
If at any time you require assistance, please contact our Online Account Services customer hotline at 1-800-788-7000 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Well, I held the mouse over the link without clicking and saw this,
http://makemehappyJC.land.ru/verifyip.html

These Russian phishers even inserted a CitiBank logo and an 800 number to call.

Note: I inserted "JC" in the links as protection in case anybody was so inclined to click.

[Gary Sisco]

I get a scam in my box every now and then. I had to change my pay pal password once, just in case, when I got a bogus email that looked like but wasn't from pay pal. I changed my ebay password at the same time, just in case.

[Pete C]

I get a scam in my box every now and then. I had to change my pay pal password once, just in case, when I got a bogus email that looked like but wasn't from pay pal. I changed my ebay password at the same time, just in case.

No need to change your password if you didn't click on the email--there's no way your account has been touched. In fact, there's probably no relation to your having an account and getting the email. I get Ebay & Paypal emails to addresses I don't use for those services. And as Gordon says, you can see the actual link in the lower left of your browser when you mouseover. I usually forward them to spoof@paypal.com or spoof@ebay.com. I'm always getting them from banks I don't do business with too. I recently got one purportedly from the IRS telling me I was entitled to a refund. I think it was the Nigerian IRS.

[jesus marion joseph]

I think it was the Nigerian IRS.

Did they ask you to deposit a sum into your "tax account" so they could then release the "refund"?

[Gary Sisco]

I was just erring on the side of caution, and also following pay pal's own advice.

I know it's possible to note the differences between real and bogus but you also have to be taking the time to do so. Many don't. I'm not the only one who uses the computer, so I made the changes.

And then had to rememorize them ....

[Gary Sisco]

Once I got an email asking for the asking price for our farm. So I replied. I got a response telling me there was a check on the way and could I please supply photographs. ! For weeks, I kept getting increasingly more detailed requests, which of course I dumped. Finally they gave up, I guess. Like I'm going to deal on the basis of email.

Duh?

[Pete C]

Did they ask you to deposit a sum into your "tax account" so they could then release the "refund"?

I think just wanted all my personal information which the IRS, of course, doesn't have.

[Gary Sisco]

Amazing how many people fall for this kind of shit, though. It has to be profitable or people would stop doing it.

[Jimmy Cantiello]

I think just wanted all my personal information which the IRS, of course, doesn't have.

That's what you think.

[Pete C]

That's what you think.

No, it's what I don't think.

[Gary Sisco]

We got one from the State of Vermont this week saying the state had seized a large tax rebate for our failure to deposit withholding money on our payroll. Slight problem, I told them on the phone. What problem? Um, we don't have a payroll.

They have nonexistent information on us!

It will be very interesting to see how long it takes to pry the money out of their hands. Of course, if it were us oweing them, they'd be charging us penalties and so forth on top. Not so the other way around.

[clinthopson]

They send millions of those scams out and you know there will be a few idiots who respond,

BTW my Social Security number is 1YMk462 1/2

[Robert de St. Loup]

Is it in Blazing Saddles that a character has a Social Security number of "18" (or something like that)?