Another day and another phising attempt landed in my inbox this morning.
Like millions of Christmas shoppers, I’ve recently ordered a few things from Amazon, so imagine my surprise when I receive an email telling me my account has been suspended pending termination.
A brief flicker of panic settled when I read the “From” email address: Amazon.com@epud.net
The email naturally asks me to click a link and enter my Amazon username and password so they can re-instate my account. Obviously you’d need to be all kinds of stupid to actually do that based on the say-so of an email anyway.
Dear Amazon member,
We regret to inform you that your Amazon account was been suspended for a period of 3-4 days,after that it will be terminated.
During our regularly schedule account maintenance and verification we have detected a slight error in your billing information on file with Amazon.
This might be due to either following reasons:– A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address)
– Submitting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
– An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due an internal error within processors.
The link leads to: http://mynewestblog.com/exec/obidos/subst/index.html – although in the HTML email, it’s in a href tag which masks the actual URL.
Let’s hope that others take a moment before entering their details.
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LMAO! Fools… One would’ve assumed that anyone attempting a Phishing attack would have at least gone to the effort of using proper grammar in the Email. *sigh* … Silly Billy’s, never learn. -.-
Phising is part of what I’m currently doing for my final year project which is on Computer Security. It’s great that G-Mail automatically puts a warning at the top if it thinks it’s a phising e-mail.
In Computer Active recently they had a letter from a reader saying that he keeps trying to tell his bank not to send out their e-mails the way they look at the moment because they look close to what a phising e-mail looks like.
I got 3 of those this morning.
A PayPal one, an eBay one and an Amazon one. I always find them amusing though, as I don’t even use eBay.
My mother got something similair from “Barclays”. Funny thing is, she doesn’t even have an account with Barclays.
Does GMail also filter them into the spam bin because I’ve yet to get a phishing email?
More of those emails, yuk. GMAIL seems good at filtering emails so far, but will see in the future how things work out.
thats teh suck lawl i can hack them lawl in like 5 seconds lol!
Those phishing e-mails are always rather irritating. Especially the ones you get from service@paypal.com telling you (something like):
“Dear Customer,
Your account is going to be cancelled….”
Whenever it says “Dear Customer,” you know it is a fake.
The one thing I’ve always wondered about was the timing of the phising emails. It seems to me that I’ve only ever got a fake email right about the exact time that I have actually been using paypal or amazon. Makes me wonder if they are monitoring emails or sniffing packets on a large pipe.. this has happened a few times .. too many times to just be a coincidence..