CMoon's e-mail wrote:
***Urgent Fraud Prevention Group Notice***
You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your Amazon account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter. To speed up this process, you are required to verify your Amazon account by following the link below.
Please Note: If your account informations are not updated within the next 12 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your Amazon account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
We appreciate your support and understanding, as we work together to keep Amazon a safe place to trade.
Thank you for your attention on this serious matter. We apologize for any delay in resolving this situation.
Regards,
Amazon.com
Investigations Team
This kind of crap is becoming increasingly scary. If you follow the link it takes you to what appears to be a amazon sign in, but the url is all wrong. If you dig around further in the directories you will also find a fake paypal page.
I want to report fuckers like this. How do I do it?
Randorama wrote:ban CMoon for being a closet Jerry Falwell cockmonster/Ann Coulter fan, Nijska a bronie (ack! The horror!), and Ed Oscuro being unable to post 100-word arguments without writing 3-pages posts.
Eugenics: you know it's right!
I get at least 10 of these emails a day for amazon, paypal and various banks. Unfortunately, since most of the spoofed sites aren't around for very long, it is pretty hard to track them down.
Damocles wrote:My favorite fraud emails are the ones supposedly from attorneys that represented a deceased relative in some oddball country like Nigeria or Zimbabwe.
"Hello, I am from Nigerian Royalty, and I need you to send me money! Please ignore the fact that I can't spell Nigeria.....or Royalty"
CMoon's e-mail wrote:
***Urgent Fraud Prevention Group Notice***
You have received this email because we have strong reason to believe that your Amazon account had been recently compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we are required to open an investigation into this matter. To speed up this process, you are required to verify your Amazon account by following the link below.
Please Note: If your account informations are not updated within the next 12 hours, then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is to ensure that your Amazon account has not been fraudulently used and to combat fraud.
We appreciate your support and understanding, as we work together to keep Amazon a safe place to trade.
Thank you for your attention on this serious matter. We apologize for any delay in resolving this situation.
Regards,
Amazon.com
Investigations Team
This kind of crap is becoming increasingly scary. If you follow the link it takes you to what appears to be a amazon sign in, but the url is all wrong. If you dig around further in the directories you will also find a fake paypal page.
I want to report fuckers like this. How do I do it?
Heh. I received the same exact email late last week. Suprisingly its the first one I have ever gotten. I am sure it wont be the last however.
I got some e-mails from ebay, amazon (I think), some bank I haven't even heard of, and paypal at my regular hotmail email and I don't even have accounts at any of those places with that email.
There's spoof at ebay.com and spoof at paypal.com. That's where you forward those, with the headers if possible.
I usually reply with a nasty series of threats or gibberish. Or send in the reply (never go to the site) a lot of fake information. Such as Al L. Koholik, 123 STFU College Dr. Noob, NJ. Acct number 1234 666 1313 77-77. And attach a JPEG with the Kanji for "baka".
Oddly enough I only get them on my ISP account, but never in my public webmail ones.
I get the paypal ones almost daily. I used to forward them to spoof (at) paypal.com, but I just got the same "thanks, we're looking into it" reply for each one. I'm sure they get thousands of similar emails a day.
I only get it with my public yahoo account, most likely because that's what I used to register for paypal.
I had a very similar email from Wanadoo stating: "We have changed your account details for absolutley no reason. Please click on the following link and fill in your bank details."
I dismissed it as some bullshit/scam but unfortunately it turned out to be real and I ended up paying over £100 in back payments and cancellation fees. Turns out that one day they just decided that they weren't accepting switch payments anymore and my payments didn't go through for a few months. (which is understandable as switch payments are unreliable online.) Of course they only tell me this after I have paid back what I owed them.
Damocles wrote:My favorite fraud emails are the ones supposedly from attorneys that represented a deceased relative in some oddball country like Nigeria or Zimbabwe.
And how they profusely confess their christianity and love for God, before asking you to accept 10 million dollars from them.
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
Sly Cherry Chunks wrote:I had a very similar email from Wanadoo stating: "We have changed your account details for absolutley no reason. Please click on the following link and fill in your bank details."
I dismissed it as some bullshit/scam but unfortunately it turned out to be real and I ended up paying over £100 in back payments and cancellation fees. Turns out that one day they just decided that they weren't accepting switch payments anymore and my payments didn't go through for a few months. (which is understandable as switch payments are unreliable online.) Of course they only tell me this after I have paid back what I owed them.
Cunts.
That's retarded Aren't they aware of how scammy that mail sounds? That almost sounds like something that should be sent snail mail instead.
"This is not an alien life form! He is an experimental government aircraft!"
Aren't they aware of how scammy that mail sounds? That almost sounds like something that should be sent snail mail instead.