This type of phishing spam is seldom worth a glance, but I was drawn in by the subject line and the random capitalization. An interesting twist in the story is that brunext.com appears to be a real company. Brunext.net looks like an exact duplicate of that site. Sender: Malcox Jason [brunext@brunext.net] Subject: Who Is She [...]
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The recent theft of passwords from LinkedIn prompted me to post these spams masquerading as messages from that firm. The first one made no attempt beyond the Sender name to look like it came from LinkedIn. The others made a minimal attempt to look like a LinkedIn message and all look like they came from [...]
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Similar to the notifications from MySpace, Habbo, Tagged, and Foursquare I got a few weeks ago, I’m getting lots of fake Facebook notifications. According to this article, they’re phishing messages. Here are a few examples: Sender: Facebook (confirm+robert@ig.com.br) Subject: Reminder: Reset your password Text: You recently requested a new password for your Facebook account. It [...]
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This type of phishing scam is common as dirt, but this example is particularly lame. First, it includes the sections of CitiBank’s standard notices that would normally include the account holder’s name and the last 4 digits of the account — but they’re blank. Then there are some typos. But the really lame part is [...]
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I’m crushed. I didn’t even know I had a CPA license, and now it’s being revoked. Over and over (19 times in the past 2 days!). According to the AICPA’s web site it’s a phishing scam. Unlike most lame spam, at least they bothered to make it look real. Here’s what they look like (some [...]
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I wrote about a version of this one last year, but the language of this version is so tortured that I have to post it. No official-looking seal this time. Sender: FBI OFFICE (office.fbi3@gmail.com) Subject: FROM IMF HEAD OFFICE Text: Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau Of Investigation J.Edgar Hoover [...]
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Just in time for tax filing season in the U.S., a phishing message purporting to come from Intuit. Intuit’s security center lists lots of these, but not the two I got this week. Both had empty graphics placeholders and broken hyperlinks — maybe the work of a baby spammer. Sender: INTUIT INC. (onlinebanking@ealerts.bankofamerica.com) — it [...]
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I’ve been seeing a bunch of spams trying to prey on job seekers. Particularly evil in these tough times. None of them attempts to disguise the URL they’re linking to. Judging from this writeup, they’re phishing, not downloading malware. There are at least some novel locutions, like “Hurroo Robert” and “Pass the time of day [...]
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I’ve seen spam like this before (here’s an example using Facebook), and it might have a chance if they’d just used the first sentence. But they also used some random text generator that makes the message gibberish. A baby spammer taking his first steps? Sender: bigrick27856@aol.com Subject: blank Text: To: Facebook User, Southwest is giving [...]
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The text of this message made me smile, but the RAR attachment turned my smile upside down (no, I didn’t click — and don’t you click, either). Here’s info on rar attachments: http://www.philipp-winterberg.com/software/rar_faq_phishing_fraudulent_dangerous_malicious_files.php Subject: Please stop sending spam messages onto our email Sender: CorpTech (contact@corptech.com) Attachment: Attached_Document_INC#69397.rar Text: Hello. Your email is sending spam messages! [...]
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