Re: Warning: Another scam

Jul 31, 2003 15 Replies


Just received the following email, telling me somebody just sent me money.


> When you go to the website address they ask you to put into you credit card
> details, three digit security code *AND* PIN number. Must think I was born
> yesterday, however, I'm sure somebody will be duped into doing it but
> unfortunately for them they probably won't read newsgroups like this.
> Details of email below (may lose formatting as it's in HTML):
>
> Payment Notification.
>
> Your friend has just sent $164.95 to you.
>
> This email confirms that you have received a Payment
> for $164.95 from Melanie Brayden ( snipped-for-privacy@aol.com) >
> View the details of this payment online at:
>
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> ------------------------------ > Payment Details: > ------------------------------ >
> Amount: $164.95
> Currency: U.S. Dollars
> Transaction ID: smxubrjbinc
>
>
> Message sent by your friend: Thank you. You really helped me. >
> ------------------------------
> Withdrawal Details:
> ------------------------------
>
>
> To withdraw this payment from "Send Money Now" account, please visit
> this link -
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>
> Send Money Now - World Wide Payment System, Inc.
>

Thanks for the warning, I hope you have reported this. I just ran the actual page URL

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through Spamcop
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and it returned the following for abuse reports, but the whole headers should be run through just to make sure. mailto: snipped-for-privacy@certcc.or.kr

Not very convincing: the grammar, punctuation and spelling give it away.

Are they interested in non UK scams ? I could have reported loads of scams to them, but assumed they would be interested.

Daytona

I have looked at the website and what they are doing is perfectly legal.

It's not what they are doing on the website that's illegal, it's what they'll do with the data they collect from there....

Dan

Whose website? NCIS or the Korean scumbags who ask for your ATM PIN-code tired to this credit/debit card:

Well Richard, I am sure Dudley will have no objections to you claiming his $164.65. and then, when they clear your bank account out you can come back and tell us what a bargain you had, RobL

If you've gone to their webpage you might want to sweep your system for virii. After checking out the page my software detected a key logger that had been installed on my system.

VERY scary.

Oooohhh s*it, seriously? Where was it? What was it called?

Dan

Just replace IE with Mozilla / Opera and you won't need to worry so much about that.

I got something similar, except saying it was some insurance company saying they deposited over $1000.00 for me, and then asked for a credit card/bank deposit PIN number to wire the money into.. It really looked 'real' but if someone owed me money, I would know about it!

I think credit card companies are interested in these guys *globally*. Might even set baits for them.

I assume credit card company holds IP rights for PIN? Might be stealing to ask it without the permission of credit card company :-)

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