URGENT! Off-Topic

by Pete Egeler Posted: 14 years ago 26 replies

Those Warriors with elderly parents should be aware of an intense SPAM email be sent around this morning here in the US.

The SPAM claims to be from the Federal Government's EFTPS program, and that you, or your parents, are being investigated for "late or Rejected payment" of employment taxes.

It all looks VERY official, and while a couple of links do appear to go to a Federal Tax Site, the actual final destination does not.

So far, I've received 15 of them this morning, each with a different "case" number.

Knowing the huge number of elderly folks now online, I felt it might be helpful to alert the general population to keep an eye out and make sure their loved-ones don't get sucked into this new SPAM tool geared toward the elderly, and uninformed.

Pete

#off topic forum #offtopic #urgent

GeorgiaB 14 years ago

Thank you for your alert.
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- Shaun OReilly 14 years ago
  
  Hi Pete,
  
  I was writing a thread on this at the same time you posted:
  
  http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...sed-again.html
  
  I think it may be an issue with e-mail addresses housed
  within AWeber.
  
  Dedicated to your success,
  
  Shaun
  
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AdmiralGloom 14 years ago

How horrific! Thank you for the info...so evil :/
JustinDupre 14 years ago

Thanks for the warning! Too much spam going on now.
Joshua Bretag 14 years ago

It's Australia as well boys, my lists got hammered and had the team busy creating really cool content products to give to my lists tommorrow as an apology for aweber stuffing up.

Josh
The Crazy Email Professor
MichaelHiles 14 years ago

lol... except the most recent one spelled "prosecution".

Not that anyone would notice.

IF [$SUBJECT] = '*EFTPS*' THEN SMTPACTION = BOUNCE
I.M.Retired 14 years ago

I received those messages this morning as well here in Canada.

Seems like a pretty massive mail-out!

Hope they catch the perps!
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- Vogin 14 years ago
  
  I got some stuff too (Czech Republic) - which is extremely funny, why the hell would I be concerned with anything legal in the US
  
  The emails I got were full of typos and the English was weird, I'd say it was a pretty poor attempt...
deloriagod 14 years ago

I didn't even see this thread before I posted another. Here's what the emails I got look like (I removed the actual link, it went to some .de domain):
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- ExRat 14 years ago
  
  Hi,
  
  Getting pharmacy stuff now...onslaught started.
  
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- Bill Farnham 14 years ago
  
  Just one more good reason to ask for samples of work before hiring someone at fiverr...
  
  Outsourcing. Good grief!
  
  :rolleyes:
  
  ~Bill
KenThompson 14 years ago

I received one for taxes about a week ago. But only one, so
far. But the pharma spam has picked up a bit.

Then there are the usual Nigerian generals. I had one from the
FBI over the weekend, but it turned out to be the FBI collaborating
with a Nigerian diplomat. LOL

Fine entertainment...

Ken
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- deloriagod 14 years ago
  
  I actually like to email them back sometimes. Try to get them thinking I'm really serious about handing over all of my personal information. Then throw in some ridiculous twist that usually leaves me with no more incoming emails from them.
  
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MikeAmbrosio 14 years ago

Been getting these the past couple of weeks, although got hit with DOZENS today.

I gotta say it almost had me logging in to my account because I had made an electronic payment not long before that. I would have clicked on that link too if I had not seen the same email 4 times, to email addresses I don't use on that site.

Mike
cevin 14 years ago

Those spam mail have come to greece to and italy. It seemed suspicious so I ignored them.

Last week to got a mail from my bank too asking for my card number! (all these are fake) they usualy ask you go there.
Kim Standerline 14 years ago

Either my spam filter has been working overtime or I've just been lucky, my spam doesn't appear to bad at the mo

Kim
waterotter 14 years ago

My spam filter has been doing a killer job. Last I checked, there were 250 of these emails in it.
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- KenThompson 14 years ago
  
  250!
  
  My goodness, Miss Otter... where do you spend your time when
  you're not here?
  
  Ken
  
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Sheryl Polomka 14 years ago

Wow - yeah I got hit with dozens of these this morning too - don't these people have anything better to do?

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URGENT! Off-Topic

Pete Egeler • 14 years ago • 26 replies

Those Warriors with elderly parents should be aware of an intense SPAM email be sent around this morning here in the US. The SPAM claims to be from the Federal Government's EFTPS program, and that you, or your parents, are being investigated for "late or Rejected payment" of employment taxes.