

| Subject: | Re: Phishing alert |
| From: | Jason Kirk |
| Date: | Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:21:48 -0700 |
I've gotten a few in the past two weeks. Jason > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of > Bob Stevens > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:33 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: Phishing alert > > "Are these phisherman targeting other listees? Just a heads up in case > this > is where they latched on to my e-mail address." > > "Yeah, I got one too in my gmail account, which I only use for the Vanagon > list. I'm bettin' we got "harvested" here." > > About 2 months ago, what I thought was the paypal "anti-fraud team" > started > sending me "warnings" that someone from Poland, Netherlands and Romania > was > attempting to access my account. I got 3 of these "warnings" from the > address: paypal@admin.com. It was entitled a Fraud Alert in the subject > line. It asked me to log into my account and change my password and signin > to keep it safe and secure. I didn't of course and sent it to the paypal > help address at their site (spoof@paypal.com and webform@paypal.com). > Paypal > got back to me letting me know someone was phishing. > > They don't use very good English and their sentence structure is too full > of > errors because they don't know context phrases and structure very well. It > even warns against logging in when requested by those attempting fraud: > "Make sure you never provide your password to fraudulent websites." The > email they (fraud-squad) generated looked very official and just like > something that came from Pay Pal. > > bob
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