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In rec.crafts.metalworking Gunner wrote:
From an email today...an old scam with a new face? Yeah, very new. I've only had several thousand of these to date... |
Half the people in the world wake up every day thinking of how to cheat the
other half. (The ratios might be reversed if you think I'm cynical) -- "Gunner" wrote in message ... From an email today...an old scam with a new face? Status: U Return-Path: Received: from plesk.ev1servers.net ([66.98.140.35]) by meadowlark (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1bZDn12Fj3NZFl60 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25606 invoked by uid 48); 24 Aug 2004 13:16:02 -0000 Date: 24 Aug 2004 13:16:02 -0000 Message-ID: To: Subject: Notification of BB&T Internet Banking Unauthorized Account Access From: Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-ELNK-AV: Dear BB&T customer, We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your BB&T Internet Banking account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. Protecting the security of your account and of the BB&T network is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to sensitive account features. To restore your account access, please take the following steps to ensure that your account has not been compromised: 1. Login to your BB&T Internet Banking account. In case you are not enrolled for Internet Banking, you will have to use your Social Security Number as both your Personal ID and Password and fill in all the required information, including your name and your account number. 2. Review your recent account history for any unauthorized withdrawals or deposits, and check your account profile to make sure not changes have been made. If any unauthorized activity has taken place on your account, report this to BB&T staff immediately. To get started, please click the link below: https://online.bbandt.com/online/ser...loginbbt1.html We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire BB&T system. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil? Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work. - L. Neil Smith |
Gunner wrote:
From an email today...an old scam with a new face? Status: U Return-Path: Received: from plesk.ev1servers.net ([66.98.140.35]) by meadowlark (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1bZDn12Fj3NZFl60 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25606 invoked by uid 48); 24 Aug 2004 13:16:02 -0000 Date: 24 Aug 2004 13:16:02 -0000 Message-ID: To: Subject: Notification of BB&T Internet Banking Unauthorized Account Access From: Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-ELNK-AV: Dear BB&T customer, We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your BB&T Internet Banking account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. Protecting the security of your account and of the BB&T network is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to sensitive account features. To restore your account access, please take the following steps to ensure that your account has not been compromised: 1. Login to your BB&T Internet Banking account. In case you are not enrolled for Internet Banking, you will have to use your Social Security Number as both your Personal ID and Password and fill in all the required information, including your name and your account number. 2. Review your recent account history for any unauthorized withdrawals or deposits, and check your account profile to make sure not changes have been made. If any unauthorized activity has taken place on your account, report this to BB&T staff immediately. To get started, please click the link below: https://online.bbandt.com/online/ser...loginbbt1.html We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire BB&T system. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil? Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work. - L. Neil Smith Yes new scam it is trying to get your Social security number to open credit cards in your name. Message ID and From do not match is the first clue it is a spamming dimwit -- TSS ~~~~ Nazi Germany 1942 - Papers Please! (while Nazi gunmen watch you closely.) USA 2004 - Give me your Digital passport and take off your clothes so we can scan you for weapons and see if you have recieved money or contributed money to terrorist organizations! (While undertrained Armed security guards watch you closely.) Which should you fear more the present or the past? ~~~~ |
About once a month I get a few of these,purporting to be from various banks.
So far, they have all been banks in which I have no accounts. The first I got, claimed to be from BankAmerica. The fact that they misspelled "Customer Service" in their email address, was a dead give away. Paul K. Dickman Ian Stirling wrote in message ... In rec.crafts.metalworking Gunner wrote: From an email today...an old scam with a new face? Yeah, very new. I've only had several thousand of these to date... |
"The Seventh Sign" wrote in message ... Gunner wrote: From an email today...an old scam with a new face? Status: U Return-Path: Received: from plesk.ev1servers.net ([66.98.140.35]) by meadowlark (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1bZDn12Fj3NZFl60 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25606 invoked by uid 48); 24 Aug 2004 13:16:02 -0000 Date: 24 Aug 2004 13:16:02 -0000 Message-ID: To: Subject: Notification of BB&T Internet Banking Unauthorized Account Access From: Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-ELNK-AV: Dear BB&T customer, We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your BB&T Internet Banking account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. Protecting the security of your account and of the BB&T network is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to sensitive account features. To restore your account access, please take the following steps to ensure that your account has not been compromised: 1. Login to your BB&T Internet Banking account. In case you are not enrolled for Internet Banking, you will have to use your Social Security Number as both your Personal ID and Password and fill in all the required information, including your name and your account number. 2. Review your recent account history for any unauthorized withdrawals or deposits, and check your account profile to make sure not changes have been made. If any unauthorized activity has taken place on your account, report this to BB&T staff immediately. To get started, please click the link below: https://online.bbandt.com/online/ser...loginbbt1.html We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire BB&T system. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil? Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work. - L. Neil Smith Yes new scam it is trying to get your Social security number to open credit cards in your name. Message ID and From do not match is the first clue it is a spamming dimwit -- TSS ~~~~ Nazi Germany 1942 - Papers Please! (while Nazi gunmen watch you closely.) USA 2004 - Give me your Digital passport and take off your clothes so we can scan you for weapons and see if you have recieved money or contributed money to terrorist organizations! (While undertrained Armed security guards watch you closely.) Which should you fear more the present or the past? ~~~~ On the BB&T home page "Some of our clients have been receiving e-mail messages seeming to be from BB&T that request confidential personal information. These e-mail messages are disguised to appear like a BB&T message, but do not come from BB&T. " etc. . . . http://www.bbandt.com/fraud.html -- Regards, Paul Sevin Ovation Engineering, Inc. productivity solutions for CNC machinery http://www.ovationengineering.com fix the email "_" to reply directly |
granpaw wrote in message ... the thing that almost threw me was the link is to a secure site (https). Yes, I have gotten some pretty impressive ones. But so far, if I put the cursor over the link, the display at the bottom of the screen shows that the link does not direct me to the site written in the text of the email, but to some other site. Personally, I won't give out that sort of info to an email link. If appears legit, I will manually go to the site and see what's up. Paul K. Dickman |
Gunner wrote in message . ..
From an email today...an old scam with a new face? Status: U Return-Path: Received: from plesk.ev1servers.net ([66.98.140.35]) by meadowlark (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1bZDn12Fj3NZFl60 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25606 invoked by uid 48); 24 Aug 2004 13:16:02 -0000 Date: 24 Aug 2004 13:16:02 -0000 Message-ID: To: Subject: Notification of BB&T Internet Banking Unauthorized Account Access From: Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-ELNK-AV: Dear BB&T customer, https://online.bbandt.com/online/ser...loginbbt1.html Complain to: and the FTC. |
In rec.crafts.metalworking granpaw wrote:
"Paul K. Dickman" wrote in : About once a month I get a few of these,purporting to be from various banks. So far, they have all been banks in which I have no accounts. The first I got, claimed to be from BankAmerica. The fact that they misspelled "Customer Service" in their email address, was a dead give away. Paul K. Dickman Ian Stirling wrote in message ... In rec.crafts.metalworking Gunner wrote: From an email today...an old scam with a new face? Yeah, very new. I've only had several thousand of these to date... the thing that almost threw me was the link is to a secure site (https). I'm assuming that the message came as HTML, not just the plain text we saw. In which case, the https://... is probably just the text of a link to another site. |
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:27:11 GMT, "Maagman"
wrote: Hello Gunner, I think this email was legit. The thing to look for if you suspect phishing, is the actual link target, and the return path of the email. In your case, the target began with https//blablabla... the important thing to look for is the https, as opposed to http. The "s" at the end denotes a secure connection, your first clue that it is "official". Secondly the link target points to bbant.com, instead of something like http://www.xsoccer.as.ro/subinfo/Per...ication_E.html the link target on a fake email I got phishing for my paypal login. Below is the header from that email, notice at the bottom how they faked out my isp's mail server into thinking it was from a "good" source. Thats what I was wondering about. I read the source code carefuly, but it still made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Hence the New Face question. They are getting more devious. And Ive never done any business with Bbant.com Gunner No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil? Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work. - L. Neil Smith |
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Gunner wrote in message ... From an email today...an old scam with a new face? I received something similar from a credit card company a few weeks ago. Called the company and they strongly said no - they did not send it. And then gave me an email address to send the message to for their research and action. JonquilJan Learn something new every day As long as you are learning, you are living When you stop learning, you start dying |
"Gunner" wrote in message ... On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:27:11 GMT, "Maagman" wrote: Hello Gunner, I think this email was legit. The thing to look for if you suspect phishing, is the actual link target, and the return path of the email. In your case, the target began with https//blablabla... the important thing to look for is the https, as opposed to http. The "s" at the end denotes a secure connection, your first clue that it is "official". Secondly the link target points to bbant.com, instead of something like http://www.xsoccer.as.ro/subinfo/Per...ication_E.html the link target on a fake email I got phishing for my paypal login. Below is the header from that email, notice at the bottom how they faked out my isp's mail server into thinking it was from a "good" source. Thats what I was wondering about. I read the source code carefuly, but it still made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Hence the New Face question. They are getting more devious. And Ive never done any business with Bbant.com Gunner I see your point now, I was assuming you were a customer. Wow, I never pay attention to email from firms I don't do business with and never imagined they had gotten that good. Maagman |
I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Gunner
wrote back on Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:53:55 GMT in misc.survivalism : Dear BB&T customer, We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your BB&T Internet Banking account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. Protecting the security of your account and of the BB&T network is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we have temporarily limited access to sensitive account features. I've been informed my paypal account, my citibank account, and my ebay account all have irregularities. I usually advise them to give them some prunes, that will fix them, seeing as how I don't have any of those three. tschus pyotr -- pyotr filipivich "Do not argue with the forces of nature, for you are small, insignificant, and biodegradable." |
I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show "Tom Gardner"
wrote back on Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:36:54 GMT in misc.survivalism : Half the people in the world wake up every day thinking of how to cheat the other half. (The ratios might be reversed if you think I'm cynical) Yeah, but the paranoid half wake up thinking the other half is going to try and cheat them. tschus pyotr -- pyotr filipivich "Do not argue with the forces of nature, for you are small, insignificant, and biodegradable." |
Gunner wrote:
2. Review your recent account history for any unauthorized withdrawals or deposits, and check your account profile to make sure not changes have been made. If any unauthorized activity has taken place on your account, report this to BB&T staff immediately. To get started, please click the link below: https://online.bbandt.com/online/ser...loginbbt1.html We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire BB&T system. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Its phishing again. They are doing it because it makes real money, the Wall St. Journal says millions. Whats amazing to me is this is the easiest fraud to stop. They have to use USA based web sites to do it, which means that they have to have physical servers here somewhere. Raiding and shutting down phisher hosts would put a stop to this nonsense quickly. -- Samiam is Scott A. Moore Personal web site: http:/www.moorecad.com/scott My electronics engineering consulting site: http://www.moorecad.com ISO 7185 Standard Pascal web site: http://www.moorecad.com/standardpascal Classic Basic Games web site: http://www.moorecad.com/classicbasic The IP Pascal web site, a high performance, highly portable ISO 7185 Pascal compiler system: http://www.moorecad.com/ippas Being right is more powerfull than large corporations or governments. The right argument may not be pervasive, but the facts eventually are. |
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(Bill) writes: Complain to: and the FTC. For ev1.net: But it looks like it really came from galacticzero.net (which ev1.net hosts so keep them on the list) so you can add (perhaps .. that's *perhaps* THEM but it looks like a smallish hosting firm with a rogue user). galacticzero.net is registered with godaddy so add: For the FTC: bbandt.com = 208.11.12.254 Abuse address , Perhaps add , and as it's clearly an attempt at fraud. bbandt.com is registered with networksolutions.com so a copy can go to: HTH -- Cliff |
Gunner wrote:
From an email today...an old scam with a new face? [ snip ] Dear BB&T customer, We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your BB&T Internet Banking account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. [ snip ] Been getting the exact same verbiage recently about "my paypal account". I don't have a paypal account.... -jc- |
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