Community weekly poll: Have you been the victim of a phishing scam?
- 6/22/05 3:59 PM
phishing scam
by mandrewwhiteman - 6/24/05 10:47 AM In reply to: Have you been the victim of a phishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have had several attempts. I simply will not provide information to anyone on the phone or net unless I iniate the contact.
I have actually had phishing from using the name of a bank I have an account with along with 2 other banks. I don't do online banking with this bank so obviously it was phishing.
I delete all phishing attempts.
Haven't fallen for it
by village_idiot - 6/24/05 10:47 AM In reply to: Have you been the victim of a phishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have gotten a few phishing emails, one from "eBay" and two from some bank. However, I am under 18, so I don't HAVE an eBay account, and I don't have an account from that bank, so it's not too hard to avoid these, yet.
Victim to a well done scam
by Dorel Kynaston - 6/24/05 11:26 AM In reply to: Have you been the victim of a phishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hey, the other day I was in my Yahoo email.
After clicking on an email I thought was legitimate, up pops a 'RE-logon in to Yahoo page'. Since I had seen a similar re-logon request before, I quickly logged in again. Immediately up came a simple text page showing me my logon name and password along with hundreds of others. WOW,
I wrote a few down, and sure enough they had grabbed hundreds of suckers like me.
I was able to log into nearly any of the ones listed. I immediately changed my password on Yahoo. Pretty scarey.. because it was almost impossible to tell I was getting 'Phished'.
Dorel
Have I ever been a victim of phishing?
by ssggrkin - 6/24/05 12:41 PM In reply to: Have you been the victim of a phishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
No! And the reason? When a site that I (link) into not one I specifically go to asks for personal info I (excuse the graphic picture here) run like a raped grape ape. As is stated so many other times a legitimate site should not ask for personal info unless you are setting up an online account and then it should begin with "https", and that still is cause for concern. My other rule of thumb is, if you have to think twice don't do it
Phishing from a "Secure Site"
by albizzia - 6/29/05 1:11 PM In reply to: Have I ever been a victim of phishing? by ssggrkinOne of the phishing scam spams I investigated had set up a bogus "secure" website, using a self-generated "certificate" not affiliated with any security firm.
It started with "https://" just like a secure site would, and the little "lock" icon would appear, but the security settings I had on IE identified it as an unrecognized security certificate. Also, the address was bogus, substituting number 1 for an L (paypa11, misspelled)
They were using a standard Linux webserver program, ironically, their own webserver was unsecured.
Never
by devildogtey - 6/24/05 12:43 PM In reply to: Have you been the victim of a phishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Really no big deal, trust no one that you do not personally know. Even then I would call them on the phone to verify. I do not do business with PayPal, E-Bay, or any other internet business. As for my bank, if they have an offer, they can send it to me via US Mail. Even then I would only transact business in the bank, never online or over the phone.
Phishing
by CGB710 - 6/24/05 1:17 PM In reply to: Have you been the victim of a phishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Be smart, look at who sent it, it you don't know them or haven't an account or didn't ask for service, hit delete. A little simple care and caution and a good firewall and good anti spam also help a lot.
Stay Smart.
Not really a victim...
by beany'n'cecile - 6/24/05 1:35 PM In reply to: Have you been the victim of a phishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
..but have certainly gotten quite a few attempts. Bank of America, Wells Fargo, PayPal, eBay and a few others. Of course if you click on the link you can see in the URL that you are being re-directed to a site that has nothing to do with the supposed sender.
Oh for the days of the Nigerian funds transfer scam.
Nuke the Phish
by beany'n'cecile - 6/24/05 1:40 PM In reply to: Have you been the victim of a phishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
To bad we can't trojan horse them right back. Maybe something destructive like "del *.exe" or maybe something that causes the harddrive to go into a very rapid read/write loop...with no end of course.
Anti-fishing for the not-very- IT literate
by rosier - 6/24/05 3:31 PM In reply to: Nuke the Phish by beany'n'cecileBY all means reply to the phishers; but make up completely false numbers. Drives 'em mad getting back to you to 'correct the error'.
sending the phishers into overdrive
by meanoldmom - 6/25/05 6:38 AM In reply to: Anti-fishing for the not-very- IT literate by rosierSince I definately cannot write code, this sounds like a fun idea for retaliation. The only thing making me hesitate is that by responding I have shown them that my email address is a live account. That just opens the door the further "correspondence."
phishing scams
by jody - 6/24/05 4:06 PM In reply to: Have you been the victim of a phishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I don't open anything I'm not 100% sure of. I delete them immediately. If it's something I'm interested in, I go to the legitimate site because I've found if an offer is being made, it will usually be on the actual site.
Phishing scam
by Donald Curry - 6/24/05 8:36 PM In reply to: phishing scams by jodyJody,said it right about the phishing scam,very,very good!!
phishing scam
by chris.t - 6/24/05 4:41 PM In reply to: Have you been the victim of a phishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have had at least 4 attempts to get me to go to Realnetworks site and Paypal both of these have had press this link. Best way to deal with these is the Junk mail buttton. They seem to get tired after about 3 days of no Answers . I have the phone number of Real networks UK who are most helpful and said that they and the USA branch had not sent any emails and don't send emails with a link .
So remember the Junk or Delete key for anything that looks odd no matter who it is, Even if it came from Tony Blair ( Our so called Primeminister who is never at home doing what we elected him to do )offering me a job it would be Junked or deleted .
Well thats my way of dealing with those idiots and it seems to work .
Kind regards
Chris
Avoiding phishing scams
by Priscilla Elliott - 6/24/05 6:16 PM In reply to: Have you been the victim of a phishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If I did not initiate a discussion with someone, or some entity, I do not open it. I just delete it, & have the hottest "Delete" button in town. I am ruthless, & I enjoy rubbing them out.
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