BEWARE, Read this, NOT SPAM, it's a WARNING !

[Joe T]

If you get a E-Mail that says it's :


REGIONS (< large print)

Dear clint of the Regions Bank,

Technicical services of the Regions Bank are carrying out a Planned software
upgrade. We earnestly ask you to visit the following Link to start the
procedure of confirmation of customers data.

Link is here: (The Link is from Asia, at least that's what I find from
'Who's who' http:// 218.234.17.168/r

We present our apoligies and thank you for co-operating.
PLEASE do not answer to this email- follow the instructions above.
This instruction has been sent to all bank customers and is obligatory to
follow.

NOTE: I recieved his on 03-11-05. You can check it, but don't do it, as the
mouse when it goes anywhere i the page shows that address.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

This is a "phishing" email. They want to steal your account info and empty
the money from it. You can get it from any bank. I got it from:

Sun Bank
Citibank

and today Washington Bank.

 

[Plato]

If you get a E-Mail that says it's :

Dont even bother downloading garbage mail. Delete it on the server. Why
waste your time.

 

[Joel Rubin]

If you get a E-Mail that says it's :


REGIONS (< large print)

Dear clint of the Regions Bank,

Did you know that LaSalle Bank, which I believe is in Chicago (I'm in
New York and if they have an office here it ain't a retail office.)
has a "security department" which wrote me today from a Romanian IP?

And, even though I've never lived in Canada, I received an invitation
a few months ago apparently from Bulgaria which invited me to renew my
Ontario Driver's License? Her majesty's provincial Minister of
Transport had never heard of this offer before I told him about it and
he passed the information on to the Mounties.

There was an insert in the NY Verizon phone bill a few months ago
warning about phishing spams.

By the way, the email from Romania had an interesting header feature.

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from lasallebank616.com ([82.79.73.83])

You see that "lasallebank616.com"? That's an SMTP helo/ehlo string and
you find things like "yahoo2435.com" in email that uses a certain kind
of email program favored by a lot of Bank Managers, Barristers and Oil
Company Chief Accountants in Nigeria.

 

[XS11E]

If you get a E-Mail that says it's :


REGIONS (< large print)

Has anyone noticed these pishing schemes seem to go in bunches? I'll
go for weeks and never see them and then some will show up.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Has anyone noticed these pishing schemes seem to go in bunches? I'll
go for weeks and never see them and then some will show up.

As soon as any one particular phishing attempt becomes well-publicized,
and the pool of the gullible dries up, and the scammers need to
retrench, find new ISPs and a new bank to mimic. All of this takes time.


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Bruce Chambers

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