It’s not unusual to get phishing scams in the form of lottery “winnings” or that appear to come from legitimate businesses or nonprofits (see the Habitat for Humanity job offer scam). But this scam is more creative than most. It arrives as a nice-looking 4-page PDF attachment from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate [...]
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I received the following phishing email today. It’s a variation on the "your email inbox is too large" scam I posted in June. It plays Habitat’s name, Haiti relief, and pure greed — it claims you can earn big tax-free commissions as a fundraiser. There are so many things wrong with this pitch. Fundraising (at [...]
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I’ve used a digital wallet for years to keep track of my passwords (I use Roboform but there are other choices). Recently I found that it serves a purpose that hadn’t occured to me: phishing prevention. Here’s the deal: I got a message from a friend with a link. Without thinking too much about it, [...]
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This is such a lame phishing scam that I can’t imagine anyone falling for it. But I received three of these messages in the past two days so I’m passing it along. I reported this account to Google, so I hope they’ll disable it. Dear Webmail User, This message was sent automatically by a program [...]
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I just received two identical messages with the following text. There’s no URL — the only way to respond is to reply to the message. Replies go to updatweb1 at aol.com I hope no one’s foolish enough to fall for this. —–Original Message—– From: apache@net.lg.ua [mailto:apache@net.lg.ua] On Behalf Of Webmail Support Sent: Friday, March 27, [...]
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I recently received the following email: Dear Robert L. Weiner Consulting, We are a domain name register center in China. We have something important need to confirm with you. On the Nov23,2008, We received an application formally,one company which self-styled ” Robert L. Weiner Consulting Development Co.,Ltd. ” wanted to register ” rlweiner ” as [...]
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The Washington Posts’s Security Fix blog reports that spam volumes declined by 2/3 after an ISP that was hosting spam operations was taken offline. The story: read more
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