Today I got an **Admin Warning: There has been unusual activity on your Wachovia bank account**.....followed by a link.

I have gotten this before, but....not having an ACCOUNT at Wachovia.....I just dumped it in the 'delete' box. This time I checked the email address of the proposed 'reply' links and found a loooooooong email address ending in ............biz.ly/htm

A search for ".ly email address" brought up a bunch of listings about "words ending in -ly" etc. But, lo and behold on page 2 there was a website lauding the attractions of "securing a website domain with the ending .ly"

The locale of these websites is Tripoli and LIBYA. HELLO

What's your latest attempt to phish your personal account info

 

Yup I got one too for "Mid American Bank" just 2 days ago. I do not have an account thier either. I found the "real" link to "Mid American Bank", found their contact info, and warned them of the pshishing activity.

 

It's not phishing, but has anybody else been getting the WW3 spam? It attempts to get me to click on am attachment labled "Full_Video.exe". (Not that that would do anything on my Linux box anyway....)

 

I run McAfee's security suite set up for tight security and so far this month I have had the following attacks blocked: Five today, 37 this week starting today and 981 attempted attacks this month? :-(

 

eudora always identifies if any embedded links are not the same as the underlying IP address.

makes life a lot easier.

although i never follow them anyway.

 

The only phishing emails I get regularly claim to be PayPal asking me to follow a link and login to their bogus site. The emails are so obviously written by someone who is not a native English speaker that I wonder how they ever find victims. But I suppose enough of the recipients also have limited English skills.

Then there are the legitimate messages from PayPal telling me that they could better serve me if I would just give them access to my bank account. I was sure it was a phishing scam. I couldn't believe it when PayPal told me that it really was them asking for the data. No thanks!

 

We have an arrangement with our ISP in which several email addresses (with different domains) all go to the same box on their server; then, of course, we download them locally with email clients. This means that phishing scams and other spam that make it past the ISP's (McAfee) spam filter get to us in several copies. While it's a pain, it identifies them quite cleanly, even the ones that substitute pieces of the email address in their subject headers

"Hey, HPH check this out!"
"Hey, CHANSON check this out!"
"Hey, INFO check this out!"

It's rather comical, actually.

The latest thing (and McAfee has identified some with viruses and some without; I haven't opened anything so they may have that WW3 thing) seems to be "news headlines" as subjects. It just goes on and on and on. HPH

 

I keep getting the Comcast ones, but of course I always ignore them. I sent the first couple to Comcast but now I just delete them.

 

I recently got the most brazen phishing e-mail ever. I don't remember the supposed bank, but the first half of the e-mail describes phishing and how this is a way to get access to your information illegitimately. The second half then directs you to proceed forward and provide the sender with your personal information!

 

I wish there was a way to send a destroy message back to these people to make them go away forever!!