Spyware, viruses, & security : Have you ever been the victim of a phishing or vishing scam?
- 4/25/08 11:55 AM
Have you ever been the victim of a phishing or vishing scam?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 4/25/08 11:55 AM
Poll: Have you ever been the victim of a phishing (e-mail) or vishing (phone) scam?
- Yes, once (Tell us about it.)
- Yes, more than once (Tell us about it.)
- No (Any tips you care to share?)
- I'm not sure what phishing or vishing is
- I don't know
If you’ve ever been phished or vished, please share your experience with us and let us know how it happened to you. Please include the process you had to go through to go get it all resolved. This will tremendously help other victims who are in the process of dealing with this headache.
Thanks!
-Lee
PHISHING
by BECCASWEB - 4/25/08 4:29 PM In reply to: Have you ever been the victim of a phishing or vishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I GET PHISHING EMAILS ALL THE TIME. I SEND THEM TO SPAM OR REPORT THEM TO WHATEVER AGENCY THEY COME FROM. I HAVE NEVER FALLEN FOR ANY HOPE I NEVER DO BUT I GET SEVERAL A MONTH.
Cell phone e-mails that indicate they are from AT&T
by milkmaid - 4/25/08 8:32 PM In reply to: PHISHING by BECCASWEBI had my e-mail blocked on my cell phone because third party venders were causing me to be charged to access my pay per e-mail AT&T Service. The e-mail indicated it was from AT&T e-mail - which is supposed to be free to AT&T Customers.
Phishing via the phone or email
by Joe Campbell - 4/25/08 4:37 PM In reply to: Have you ever been the victim of a phishing or vishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
In Canada, at least in the Vancouver area, email phishing is commonplace: emails appear to come from one of the large banks (Royal Bank, Scotia Bank, Toront-Dominion Bank, etc.), "warning" the recipient that his banking information may have been compromised. He's then asked for personal information "for clarification purposes". I've reported these to my bank and have been told there's virtually nothing they can do about it. Super.
Every day garbage
by Zgringo - 4/25/08 5:19 PM In reply to: Phishing via the phone or email by Joe CampbellI have over 3,000 Phishing, Spam what-not email I've saved over the last few months. I've won billions of dollars, been giving free computers, TV's, cars you name it plus my bank account or paypay account has been breeched and all I need to do is send my name, SS number, user name, password, date of birth and everything will be corrected. I've even got a refund back from IRS and all I need to do is verify who I am with name, SS #, date of birth, ect. ect. ect. Will let me tell you something, if the IRS, my bank or paypal they know my name and don't need to ask for it, and how can I be picked randomly from 500 million internet users and they don't even know my name.. Think about it, even "Readers Diagest Sweepstakes" knows my name, but not my benefactors who want to give me 30 kazillion south bummphuck gold coins. I haven't entered anything or joined and buying clubs so how could I have won?
YOU DON'T GET SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. IF IT'S SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, GUESS WHAT? IT ISN'T TRUE. Until laws are passed to put these scumbaggs in jail for a long time and people still think you get something for nothing, it will continue to go on.
Phishing by Phone
by donrosenzweig - 4/25/08 6:12 PM In reply to: Phishing via the phone or email by Joe CampbellI've received numerous calls (about one a week for several weeks) with the "Your new car warranty is about to expire" scam message. I have caller ID and have noticed that either it's blocked by the sender or they use what looks like either a legal long distance or toll-free number. If I try to reach the number after the call is terminated, it turns out to be a non-working one. Therefore, whoever is working this scam knows how to "spoof" phone numbers. The last time I received a call from them I asked them if they knew it was illegal to spoof phone numbers and then told them I was interested in learning about the warranty extension and they hung up and never called back.
I have been getting the same calls
by ajrap - 1/14/09 8:50 AM In reply to: Phishing by Phone by donrosenzweigI have been experiencing the same phishing by phone scam on and off for months. Tried calling back several times and have tried to play along until I finally got to speak to a supervisor asked for them to tak me off the call list. They said they would but still keep calling. Happened again today and when I got the supervisor I asked him ('Doby') to tell me more about their company he said sure then I heard click. I hope they stop calling like with you but don't think that will happen. My bet is once your # is in their system they will keep calling periodically. FYI...this started not long after a used car purchase from a dealership.
What the banks can do...
by mwooge - 4/25/08 10:03 PM In reply to: Phishing via the phone or email by Joe Campbell> I've reported these to my bank and have been told there's virtually nothing they can do about it.
Unfortunatly, there's not much can be done. Just as the bank can't block -your- emails, they also can't block the spammer's.
Possible Phishers
by maldelus - 4/25/08 4:43 PM In reply to: Have you ever been the victim of a phishing or vishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If I don't know the sender or there are a number of problems such as spelling or the subject line says 'You won' or 'Important account information,' I delete it. If a legit business concern wants to reach me, they'll send me a letter with a phone number or two with which to confirm the issue. The letter will also have their mailing address. If I recognize the address, I'll pay a little more attention after I place a phone call.
Not a new game but definately a growing game...
by madogdr - 4/25/08 5:08 PM In reply to: Have you ever been the victim of a phishing or vishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Here in Phoenix, the phish game is rampant via tele periferals like cell phones and home phones. The pc game has been around for ages and is just growing like wildfire. We even have our postal maiboxes stuffed daily with an unbelievable amout of "paper spam", to the extent that if you don't empty your mailbox daily, you will not recieve you postal mail, as the box is too full for any more content. The solution to that, it seems, is to throw all the paper spam on the ground and let the wind take it where it chooses, which means you also have to pick up paper spam from your property grounds on daily basis. As long as we choose to live in "Bush World" and refuse to change the way things are, we just have to accept these insanities as life in corruption and capitolism.
As far as the tele adventures, I generally just use the double click approach, which in this case means; On/Off.
On a rare occasion, I will play with these fools and tell them to hold on while I go get my credit card, and then just wait to see how long the fools will hold on (while laughing in the background), but this is only when I'm feeling a bit mischeivious, heh.
What's really interesting lately, is recieving postal spam that has derived from computer information generally found in the registry. Like a ficticious company name I often assign one of the many, many Pcs that I build. Now how does this information get in the hands of these people? Are the ISP's selling our data for extra jingle? It goes far beyond the realm of ridiculous anymore, but what's even more mind boggling is the fact that it's allowed. Yep, that's Bush World...enjoy it or do something about.
Never
by msecour - 4/25/08 5:53 PM In reply to: Have you ever been the victim of a phishing or vishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Phishing has received so much publicity that it is surprising that so many people still get suckered in. There have been many attempts at phishing me by email but I have not been victimized yet. RE phone phishing: we are on the "Do not call" list but still receive about 5 or 6 calls a day from "out of area" (as per our caller ID). We never answer the phone if it doesn't display the number and caller. Only a few leave messages and those that do are suspicious and are not returned.
Something smells Phishy
by The1Lion - 4/25/08 6:20 PM In reply to: Have you ever been the victim of a phishing or vishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Being an Ebay memeber, I have seen countless emails from "eBay" and "Paypal" that are phishing attemps and I always send them to spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com
I usually just need to mouse over any link in the email to see where it will actually send me (the url usually displays in the bottom left corner of the browser window) and you will see some other web address listed there than where the email is supposedly going to send you.
If you get a call from your credit card company - just call the number on your card for customer support and they should be able to tell you if there is a reason they are trying to contact you.
do not call list seems irrelevant
by pts103 - 4/25/08 6:21 PM In reply to: Have you ever been the victim of a phishing or vishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Boy does this ring a bell! I've registered both my phones on both the Fed and State do-not-call-list for the last 4 years; During this last year I have received at least two calls per week regarding my credit cards including finding these same messages on my answering machine. They are the exac type of calls others have described here and the volume of calls seem to be getting greater in number. I always hang up and never listened to the pitch. I'm getting to wonder what good the do-not-call list is good for? What can be done about it? I know enough never to respond, but I'm sure some unsuspecting people fall for the calls, thinking something is wrong or someone is using their credit cards.
A couple of times -- almost
by indiecds - 4/25/08 6:22 PM In reply to: Have you ever been the victim of a phishing or vishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Twice I fell for phishing emails. Most of them I get are pretending to be PayPal or eBay. Twice I took the bait and responded by signing in with my username and password. Immediately after doing so I realized what had happened so I immediately signed in to both sites and changed my password.
These people are extremely crafty. I had received numerous phishing attempts previously and recognized them for what they were but the keep coming up with more and more clever ways to fool you.
Whenever I receive one of these I click on "full headers" in my yahoo mail and then forward the message to either spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com. Sometimes I have even reported authenic messages from ebay or paypal as phishing attempts.
banking scam
by applauseshelties - 4/25/08 6:24 PM In reply to: Have you ever been the victim of a phishing or vishing scam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
This is so scary. I am continuously getting emails in the last 2 weeks I have gotten 3. My husband is a bank employee and I almost am afraid not to respond to these infos threatening to cancal our accounts if I don't contact within 48 hours. The part I don't understand is that the name on them is a legitimate Credit Union just not the one he works for.Do you have any advice for blocking these emails or calls? I do shop alot online and am wondering if this is why I keep getting these.
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