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Nasty phishingt scam, almost fooled me...

by Loren Woirhaye
15 replies
Here's a screenshot of the email. It appears to actually
come from Facebook. Don't be tricked by these things,
folks. These email attachments, if opened, load spyware
and trojan horses on your computer. Very nasty stuff.
#fooled #nasty #phishingt #scam
  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Yep, I received that one last week. I believe there are versions of it going around that look like they come from Twitter and PayPal.

    :-Don
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  • Profile picture of the author Raydal
    Your password in a zipped file? That must be one long
    password. I don't open attachments for this very
    reason. Also the "facebook user" was a givewaway.

    Facebook should at least know your username.

    Thanks for the heads up.

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  • Profile picture of the author NK
    Unfortunately, many people would still fall for tricks like that.

    As a rule of thumb, if you received an unsuspected email from sites like paypal, facebook or ebay, never click on the link itself or download anything. Instead, always log into your account by entering the urls manually and see if there's really anything you need to do (i.e. change password etc).

    I've not come across any situation where I ever needed to download or change anything in those accounts.

    Always double check the contents of the email. If the email is legitimate, you would see your name being used instead of "dear user".
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  • Profile picture of the author Sandor Verebi
    Originally Posted by Loren Woirhaye View Post

    Here's a screenshot of the email. It appears to actually
    come from Facebook. Don't be tricked by these things,
    folks. These email attachments, if opened, load spyware
    and trojan horses on your computer. Very nasty stuff.
    Thanks Loren,

    I also got severals from different source. In the course of time I learned hard way not to click on anything tempty link, or open such enclosure.

    As you know, there are people who use their creativity for things like this always. And they are hard-working. LOL

    All the best,

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    • Profile picture of the author salegurus
      Yip, i got similar from "ebay" bid cancelled.
      I wish there was a way i could zap these bottom feeding @#$#%@! with a substancial dose of electricity when they send me these emails.
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      • Profile picture of the author IM World
        Also beware of the UPS one that seems to be going around at the moment too...
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        • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
          They're easy to spot: Facebook knows my name. They wouldn't address me as "Dear User".

          Of course, some spammers are able to get a hold of your name, so you still have to be careful if a message does address you by name.

          But, as a rule, if a site you're a member of does not use your name in an eMail, there is (I would guess) a 99.9% probability that it is spam or a scam.
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          • Profile picture of the author Sandor Verebi
            Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert View Post

            They're easy to spot: Facebook knows my name. They wouldn't address me as "Dear User".

            Of course, some spammers are able to get a hold of your name, so you still have to be careful if a message does address you by name.

            But, as a rule, if a site you're a member of does not use your name in an eMail, there is (I would guess) a 99.9% probability that it is spam or a scam.
            Point taken.
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            • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
              Some of these are pretty good. I got one a couple days ago purporting to be from Fedex. I almost fell for it because I really was waiting for a Fedex pickup today but I noticed some oddities about the email.

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  • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Chan
    Generally speaking, I don't expect to see attachments from web 2.0 websites like YouTube, Facebook, etc.

    Most of the attachments I get come from friends and acquaintances.

    So when I saw this one, not even a split second of hesitation when I did my shift + delete in Outlook.
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    I just got the Facebook message this morning as well, immediately realized it was a scam and was about to start a thread here when I noticed two threads are already discussing this. The other one is here:

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...firmation.html

    I've gotten so many of the UPS and FedEx ones in the last month I've lost count.

    However I seem to have noticed had a decline in the number of Nigerian banking scam messages since this all started.

    Perhaps the scammers are switching techniques for 2010?

    Bill
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      Originally Posted by mywebwork View Post

      Perhaps the scammers are switching techniques for 2010?
      I think they go in cycles. I'll see one type of eMails hot and heavy for a while, then something else will start making the rounds. And the ideas keep getting recycled. Something will go around, then die down, then start up again a year or so later, and people will think it's some new scam.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    On Gmail all I can see when I go to check mail:

    Gmail Team - Message left on the server: "Facebook PAssword Reset Confirmation! Customer Message"
    Same thing happened with the UPS "messages".

    That's a foolproof method against clicking the malicious file(s)
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  • Profile picture of the author fredjr1978
    Thanks for the heads up...honestly I didn't even open up your screen shot....not know if it is really an attachment. Sorry.
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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    Hi guys

    ive had three of them today all to the same email address - i got caught out a few years ago and it has made me extremely cautious!

    There is a lot doing the rounds right now from the parcel company telling you they havent been able to deliver your post - they are trojan too so beware.

    kind regards


    sam
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