Date:         Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:21:48 -0700
Reply-To:     Jason Kirk <Gojira@ADELPHIA.NET>
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From:         Jason Kirk <Gojira@ADELPHIA.NET>
Subject:      Re: Phishing alert
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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