Spam emails from banks

[anniemac]

Yesterday I got an email from "Bank of America" telling me that if I didn't update my online banking details then my oneline account would be closed. OK, so I did have a BOA account several years ago but closed it, so could have been from them.

However, today I got one, same content, from Well Fargo Bank. Never, ever had an account with them.

So if you get one of these and you do happen to have an account with that bank, contact your bank directly and ask about the email. Looks to me like it's an attempt to get your info.

 

[Jasminebed]

With my bank statement this month, I received an insert advising me that my bank (Bank of Montreal) NEVER contacts its' clients by e-mail, and that any e-mails purporting to be from them are fraudulent and to please report them.

 

[Mousey]

These type emails are not spam, they are scams... phishing for banking info. Give them your info through the email link and your info will be sold (along with others) to the highest bidder, your account cleaned out, your credit ruined, and (even more frightening to me) other accounts (new) set up using your ID that you don't even know about.

I get these phishing emails (at least 5 or 6 a week) from every bank I can think of... BoA, Wells Fargo, Wachovia, Regions, AmSouth, to name only a few ... most I've never had an account.

Mousey's tip for the day: Never, EVER fill out a form you get to from a click through link in an email -- I don't care if it looks like it came from your sweet old Granny.

Anecdote: Talking to a lady in the veterinarian's office the other day. She'd filled out one of those fake bank 'warning' forms with her debit card info. Her account was cleaned out. Someone bought a one way plane ticket to Montreal. Now the perp is safely out of country and the victim is left running around paying off almost $800 in bounced checks (and the associated fees).

 

[anniemac]

Exactly, Mousey. And some people will just fill them out and never think about it. I did click on the BOA one and it looked just like something that would come from them. Since I didn't have an account there anymore, I figured it wouldn't hurt just to look.

 

[lots0]

Like Mousey, I get dozens and dozens of these scam emails every week. One of the benifits of having several business email address published on the web for over ten years.

One thing years of being 'online' have tought me is to NOT trust anything that comes in my email.

For several years I would not even have a email client on my computer, I used webbased email for everything. Using webbased email helped to keep in my mind that email is about as private and secure as a giant billboard next to the freeway. It also helped to keep my computer virus free, a very large percentage of viruses are spread through infected emails.

Right now I am in a war (for lack of a better word) with some russian criminals that use email to steal money and personal information from english speaking people.

I expose their email scams and they attack my website by linking to it with p0rn anchortext and trying to get my site associated with what google calls "bad neighboorhoods" so my search rankings in google will drop and no one will find out about their scams through the search engines.

The criminals that use email to steal are some real bad people, people that need to be put in a dark cold jail cell and left there to rot.

You can see the pages the criminals are upset with me about here

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[Mousey]

Ohhhhh the lotteries I have 'won' this week alone... Between the 'lotteries' and the Nigerian scam emails I should be rich a thousand times over.... thankfully, Hotmail catches most of them and dumps them in the Junk mail...

The National Lottery BoardHome Office:L70 1NL Liverpool,P. O. Box 1010, UNITED KINGDOM(Customer Services)Reference Number: UK/9420X2/68Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369 Dear Fund Recipient, This is to inform you that the ticket number:5647-5600-5451-88 with Serial number 5368/07 attached to your email drew the lotto number: 04. Congratulations, you have just won yourself 541.000.00 (Five hundred and forty one thousand pounds sterling)in the satellite software email lottery. For further Information about your prize, contact our Lottery Fiduciary Agent with the following contact Address: Mr. Claudio GiovanniEmail: [email protected] You are to forward the following details to enable us clear your file for immediate payment:

ENTER PERSONAL DETAILS (Compulsory)1.Full Names:2.Address:3.Age:4.Valid Phone numbers:5.country: How Do You Wish To Receive Your Funds? 1. Cheque Delivery by Courier or2. Direct Bank Transfer Yours faithfully, Dr. Carl A. Moore.Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERYSweepstakes International Program.Phone :+44- 7024066047 +44- 7024065627 Copyright 1994-2008 The UK National Lottery Inc. All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline

 

[lots0]

Funny thing, after I started publishing those lottery email scam emails, I stopped getting them at my normal email address (the one that is associated with that site). I had to set up some phony email addresses so I could continue to get the spam, so I could publish them.

I still get the Nigerian bank transfer scam emails though.... Maybe I should publish them as well...