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Offline wrag

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« on: February 12, 2008, 10:40:12 AM »
Just got a very professional looking email claiming to be from Bank Of America regarding my account with them.

Said I needed to give them more information regarding my account.

I called BofA using the local phone book and they gave me a forwarding address for that email.

I forwarded that email and then deleted same.

I HAVE NO ACCOUNT with BofA :rofl

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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2008, 10:52:30 AM »
Had this same email 6 months ago, they gave me a link to a Russian website. At that point I submitted it to the FBI and B of A.
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« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2008, 02:04:07 PM »
I ignore emails from any bank, most other places too ie credit cards .. if it is important, they'll call
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« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2008, 02:06:20 PM »
You will also get them from "E-Bay", "Myspace", "PayPal" and others that look completely legit but are phishing. Some of those guys are really good.
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Re: phishing
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2008, 02:08:12 PM »
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Originally posted by wrag
Just got a very professional looking email claiming to be from Bank Of America regarding my account with them.

Said I needed to give them more information regarding my account.

I called BofA using the local phone book and they gave me a forwarding address for that email.

I forwarded that email and then deleted same.

I HAVE NO ACCOUNT with BofA :rofl

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wrag....let me check it out.  can I have your email sign-on info?

seriously...I've received those as well. financial institutions would not ask for that stuff online...no matter how authentic the email looks.

good on ya for catching it.
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« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2008, 02:20:02 PM »
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You will also get them from "E-Bay", "Myspace", "PayPal" and others that look completely legit but are phishing. Some of those guys are really good.
It's actually not that hard to make a site that looks like its real.  I use to do it in my younger days.
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« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2008, 02:35:04 PM »
Take the test see how you do:

http://www.sonicwall.com/phishing/
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« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2008, 03:18:55 PM »
I got a very professional looking email from PayPal a while back. They said I needed to update my contact info as it was out of date, too bad the email address was "paypal @ yahoo.com"
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Re: phishing
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2008, 09:17:58 PM »
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Originally posted by wrag
Just got a very professional looking email claiming to be from Bank Of America regarding my account with them.

Said I needed to give them more information regarding my account.

I called BofA using the local phone book and they gave me a forwarding address for that email.

I forwarded that email and then deleted same.

I HAVE NO ACCOUNT with BofA :rofl

Watch your behinds!


Welcome to the internet.
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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2008, 09:47:13 AM »
Sometimes phishers will make you visit their website, and the only difference between theirs and the real one is one character in the web address that's hard to see.

Such as "r" and "n" instead of an "m".
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