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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/14/2004 8:56:24 PM

Toro

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ORIGINAL: fbastos
I'm no network specialist, but I thought that when you buy a domain like "citibank.com", then you would have control over the DNS entries on that domain (like a.citibank.com, xyz.citibank.com, gugu.gaga.citibank.com, etc...).

Unfortunately, this isn't always how it words. Depending on the variation, each can be a separate domain purchase, and when you consider how many variations there are, the price tag goes up real fast. I don't know of one company that does this. Now, legally, a company can send a cease-and-desist order to force someone to stop using their name when it will have negative impact on their brand, but, well, try to coerce the scammers in another country... they could care less.

Mostly, surfers just need to be smart. Don't give nobody no access information over the web, especially ATM/bank card stuffs.

I've reported things like this to the Secret Service and Postal Inspectors (oddly, the two groups involved with identity theft here in the US), but I think they're buried with the number coming in.

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/14/2004 9:40:39 PM

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I got the CitiBank one at my work e-mail. I told my boss about it in light of the number of co-workers I have who ignorantly activated the last e-mail virus we got. She told me that our IT dept. doesn't bother to do anything about SPAM.

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/14/2004 10:16:31 PM

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ORIGINAL: Kid

If you get an e-mail telling you that you've won a free game, delete it. This is what I just got in the mail. Almost fell for it because they duplicated the company's web site to the letter.

POINT OF ATTACK 2
The most comprehensive and detailed modern combat simulator ever created.
POA2 is a modern tactical level simulation that depicts combat at the platoon and individual vehicle level. By Scott Hamilton.

First top 50 customers get FREE and you are one of them

The most comprehensive and detailed modern combat simulator ever created.
POA2 is a modern tactical level simulation that depicts combat at the platoon and individual vehicle level. By Scott Hamilton.
First top 50 customers get FREE and you are one of them

Same here and stopped at the same time... but I didn't realize it was a trap. Thanks for you info

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/14/2004 10:27:51 PM

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Just to let you know not everything is a scam...I got this email from a former government official in Nigeria who had this big Swiss account but he couldn't get to it because he needed some "earnest money" or something like that. So I electronically transferred $2500 to an account in Zurich and any day now I should be getting a 6 or 7 figure check. He seemed really thankful too.

I'm thinking of getting a vacation condo in Cabo San Lucas

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/14/2004 10:43:22 PM

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(* points to location *)

And I am so thankful for it Capt. Mandrake! You'll be getting your check any day now!

-F-

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/15/2004 3:28:21 AM

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ORIGINAL: Kid

They gave me a number and a link. When I used the link, it took to to a Web site that looked like the real thing. I was entering information into the form but stopped when they asked for my ATM PIN #. Next I used my favorites to go to the the real site and they have a BIG warning posted not to fall for the scam.

So, did you get the free game??

As soon as I see the word FREE I delete email without even looking at anything else.

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/15/2004 4:13:52 AM

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ORIGINAL: Tankerace

You'd think Hackers would finally realize that not everyone on the net is a complete idiot.... oh well, maybe someday.

Unfortunately, there are enough people that are idiots to keep them in business. If someone sent out 5,000 e-mails and got two responses that netted $5,000, that would keep them in business for a while.

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/15/2004 4:17:04 AM

donkuchi19

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I have also been getting the same phishing scheme about Sun Trust Bank. That was an easy one to figure out because I have never had an account with them.

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/16/2004 2:40:39 AM

Cap Mandrake

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ORIGINAL: Feinder

(* points to location *)

And I am so thankful for it Capt. Mandrake! You'll be getting your check any day now!

-F-

Great! You are without doubt one of the nicest Nigerians I have ever met. I will add you to my Christmas list

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/16/2004 4:36:24 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Sonny

quote:

ORIGINAL: Kid

They gave me a number and a link. When I used the link, it took to to a Web site that looked like the real thing. I was entering information into the form but stopped when they asked for my ATM PIN #. Next I used my favorites to go to the the real site and they have a BIG warning posted not to fall for the scam.

So, did you get the free game??

As soon as I see the word FREE I delete email without even looking at anything else.

I was taken in because I do buy their games and the web site looked just like their's. An the promotion was for the first fifty, like raido stations sometimes do. I'm just glad my don't trust anything for free switch kicked in when it did. LOL

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/16/2004 6:04:10 AM

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ORIGINAL: Kid

Here is another one I got a few days ago. Again note the bad gramer "nearest time"

I got one like this awhile back. Deleted it because I haven't had a Citibank account, credit Card, in years.

These guys are so stupid they couldn't even get a current list of customers.

Mike

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/17/2004 12:06:25 AM

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Firefox rocks. Not only am I not so vulnerable to spoofing but pop ups ar ea thign o fthe past. Why get a pop up blocker that willb e obsolte inside of 24 hours when you can just get a more secure browser.

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/17/2004 1:06:27 AM

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Even if it was legit, "free" is too expensive for Point of Attack 2 !

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/19/2004 11:20:38 PM

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If you want to know all about how phishing works, read this (see, no tricks in this URL) :
http://www.ngssoftware.com/papers/NISR-WP-Phishing.pdf

It tells you how it is done, all the tricks etc. Very technical though.

Any time there is a warning about something + sense of urgency and they are asking for detailed information, it probably is a fake.

Real companies don't need to ask for the credit card # they issued to customers.

"Trust me."

--Mikko

< Message edited by msaario -- 10/19/2004 11:21:36 PM >

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/20/2004 1:32:57 AM

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I get PAYPAL ones like that all the time. One thing I've no longer do is use a link from my email to a site. If it has something I'm interested in, I will type it in the address bar, I was warned about links a longggggggggggg time ago, causing viruses, and doing stuff such as this. So, if you don't press on the links or don't open suspicious email, you're pretty safe. Also if you don't visit "porn" sites or "warez" sites, you should be pretty safe as well. lol

I goto official web pages (not fansites created outside of offical websites), and official marketing sites like Ebay.com, Amazon.com or TigerDirect.com and others, rarely do I just peruse the internet blindly.

I rarely open an email unless from a gamer I am playing a PBEM game with, and hopefully these joes are legit and not trying to virus up my system. So far since 1996, no problems.

I trust Matrix.com, but, if they keep jacking their prices up, I'm gonna begin to wonder about them. lol

As far as I know I've never had a known virus, the only problems I've ever encountered was this new STARFORCE copy protection program, amazing isn't it, all these years without any major issues from internal viruses, trojans and the like and it takes a legitimate software develoment staff and publisher to screw up my system. Now I did have to download some updates from Windows when the Blaster worm was running around out there. It wasn't a serious worm, but, frustrating because it would knock you offline and shut down your system after several minutes.

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/27/2004 2:44:24 AM

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ORIGINAL: Kid

Here is another one I got a few days ago. Again note the bad gramer "nearest time"

Something like that, a bank, you should expect ONLY t come in the Real Mail, not be something like that, done on the internet..

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/27/2004 2:51:36 AM

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Just to let you know not everything is a scam...I got this email from a former government official in Nigeria who had this big Swiss account but he couldn't get to it because he needed some "earnest money" or something like that. So I electronically transferred $2500 to an account in Zurich and any day now I should be getting a 6 or 7 figure check. He seemed really thankful too.

I'm thinking of getting a vacation condo in Cabo San Lucas

Monopoly money?

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/28/2004 3:54:43 PM

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ORIGINAL: Captain Cruft

<Blatant plug>

You can avoid many of these browser security problems by using the Firefox browser.

http://www.getfirefox.com

</Blatant plug>

P.S. I would never under-estimate the ignorance of the average Internet user. It's a problem that will only go away as the more computer aware younger generations grow up ...

I'll second that idea. Firefox is much better than IE and has replaced Opera as my favorite browser. I can't live without tabs!

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RE: Warning MAJOR Scam - 10/28/2004 3:58:21 PM

rhondabrwn

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ORIGINAL: pappasmurf

Firefox rocks. Not only am I not so vulnerable to spoofing but pop ups ar ea thign o fthe past. Why get a pop up blocker that willb e obsolte inside of 24 hours when you can just get a more secure browser.

Oh yea, another great reason for using Firefox - a popup blocker that really, really works... ALL OF THE TIME!