Google Adwords Phishing messages
November 8, 2008
Filed under
Online Security
Be aware, that nowadays a great mass of phishing messages travel on the net which tries to steal your Google AdWords credentials. Please do not answer or click links from these e-mails, or if you already provided the phishers your login credentials, contact AdWords support as soon as possible.
Also, if you get emails which smells [...]
Gone Fishing… Sorry, Phishing: Miss Rachel Harriet Kahn is dead, RIP
October 27, 2008
Filed under
Online Security
At least this time nobody tries to steal my identity. Here’s an example for a message when the phisher tries to increase your interest by offering an incredibly high amount of money. What we have to do is to reply to an e-mail address, the next step would be to transfer some funds into an [...]
Read the whole article »Gone fishing … Sorry, Phishing: Ocean Bank
October 24, 2008
Filed under
Online Security
I think phishers feel the economic crisis, too. At least that’s what the increasing number of phishing messages I get tells. In a few weeks the number has been doubled.
Today I got an extremely blatant one, from Ocean Bank, at least that’s what the “From” header says. The headers were forged almost to the last [...]
Phishing messages asking for Key Bank customers’ data
October 16, 2008
Filed under
Online Security
KeyBank is the 16th biggest bank in the United States with about 2 millions of customers.
Today new phishing messages flooded my public mail addresses, all coming apparently from KeyBank.
The message body is extremely blatant, it smells from miles that they are phishing messages.
All the messages were coming from a Pakistani address, from the 203.99.160.0 – [...]
New Phishing message: Bank of America
October 16, 2008
Filed under
Online Security
A brand new phishing message from phishers located in Belarus. The messages were coming from the 86.57.220.0 – 86.57.225.255 IP block which is managed by the Republican Unitary Enterprise BELTELECOM.
The phishers apparently taken over a domain and set up a fake page imitating the Bank of America online banking service’s layout, and asking the users [...]
Gone Fishing… Sorry: Phishing – M&I
October 14, 2008
Filed under
Online Security
There’s an ongoing identity theft action in the air: spammers/phishers from all around the world try to basically obtain personal information from possible M&I (Marshall & Ilsley Bank, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) clients by setting up a webpage which imitates the M&I Bank’s website.
The body of the spam messages contain text like the followings:
M&I Bank has [...]
Read the whole article »Gone fishing… Sorry: phishing – FDIC.gov
October 9, 2008
Filed under
Online Security
Another phishing email. This time from FDIC, which is basically an agency independent from the Federal Government that acts as an insurer to the nation’s financial institutions. The message was coming from the following email address : Investigation@FDIC.gov. The address is a forged one, most likely with PHP as the message header also contained PHP [...]
Read the whole article »Gone fishing… Sorry: Phishing – Wachovia Treasury
October 8, 2008
Filed under
Online Security
If you’re a Wachovia customer, please be aware that currently an extremely active phishing attack is in course. Basically You receive emails asking you to download some badware from a faked website. After the badware is installed, starts to collect all the data which the browsers, especially IE stored, including passwords and sends the data [...]
Read the whole article »Gone fishing … Sorry… phishing: Bank of America
October 4, 2008
Filed under
Bulk, Online Security
I received a mail. Ok, I receive many but this was exciting:
Dear Bank Of America customer,
Protecting the security of our customers and the Bank Of America network, 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 [...]
