Hi Raul -- Thanks -- I am aware of those of those types of scams, and there
was a long thread about scams on blind-l, but I was just poking around in
the html on this one to see what I could find without revealing my identity.
So I guess it wasn't so much a warning as a bit of info to anyone interested
of what I found.
Sorry if it is not on topic -- I was just snooping around to uncover
anything that might be of use to the abuse list and thought I'd forward it
to the techy lists I'm on.
Take care and have a great weekend!
--le
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From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <BLIND-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "guispeak" <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
"Multiple recipients of NFBnet GUI-TALK Mailing List" <gui-talk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 7:47 PM
Subject: [guispeak] Re: dangerous spam warning...
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Hi Laura. This has been going on for some time now. I've gotten emails claiming to be from paypal, ebay, citibank, welsfargo, etc. All claiming that my account has been hacked or that they are updating security files. To fix this problem I must log on to their site and provide my full name, address and credit card information to verify it's me.
I know from using online banking for well over 7 years now that your bank no matter who they are will never ask for this type of information like this and on top of it send an ip-only address to log on to.
Your warning is certainly warranted but if people use a little common sense they will be safe. One note about those paypal users. The real payapl will always address you by first and last name, if you get email claiming to be from paypal and they start off with Dear Paypal user, or Dear paypal customer, then they are spoofs. You should forward those to spoof@xxxxxxxxxx There are other addresses one can use for citibank, ebay, etc if one chooses to do this but who can say if the banks really do anything about it.
Cheers.
- -- Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.
-- Pope St. Gregory I
- -- Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net
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