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"Phishing" Attempt
I have just received an e-mail, claiming to have come from
Stampstore.org, asking me to log in to a website and verify my account details. It's in the same form, and with the same sort of grammatical errors, as the others which I have had recently which purport to have come from US Bank, Citibank, Royal Bank of Scotland etc. I am, as it happens, an APS member, so I wonder if their membership database has been hacked. Have any other members of this newsgroup had the same? I have, of course, forwarded it to the APS for their information. -- John Ray, London UK. |
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I am, as it happens, an APS member, so I wonder if their membership database has been hacked. Have any other members of this newsgroup had the same? I have, of course, forwarded it to the APS for their information. Maybe your email address was harvested from stamp related websites and newsgroups? It is here in clear form (unless that isn't you and/or old email address no longer in use): http://www.geocities.com/uaestamps/associations/ rene |
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renster wrote:
I am, as it happens, an APS member, so I wonder if their membership database has been hacked. Have any other members of this newsgroup had the same? I have, of course, forwarded it to the APS for their information. Maybe your email address was harvested from stamp related websites and newsgroups? It is here in clear form (unless that isn't you and/or old email address no longer in use): http://www.geocities.com/uaestamps/associations/ rene Thanks for the link. It's me (Pacific Islands Study Circle), but the e-mail address is an old one and not the one to which the phishing e-mail was sent. -- John Ray, London UK. |
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:05:06 +0100, John Ray
wrote: I have just received an e-mail, claiming to have come from Stampstore.org, asking me to log in to a website and verify my account details. It's in the same form, and with the same sort of grammatical errors, as the others which I have had recently which purport to have come from US Bank, Citibank, Royal Bank of Scotland etc. I am, as it happens, an APS member, so I wonder if their membership database has been hacked. Have any other members of this newsgroup had the same? I have, of course, forwarded it to the APS for their information. At first I thought you just came from the last Phish fest in Coventry, Vt!!!!! Anyway, I'd simply report it to whatever the organization name is. Many of them have an abuse e-mail address for this purpose. Personally, I WOULD NOT answer any of those types of e-mails with ANY information. It could be your loss if you do. |
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The supposed e-mail from the APS Stamp Store is a fake. Do NOT reply to it
under any circumstances! The APS is aware of it, but there really isn't anything they can do about it except warn people not to reply to it. |
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Dave Kent a exprimé avec précision :
The supposed e-mail from the APS Stamp Store is a fake. Do NOT reply to it under any circumstances! The APS is aware of it, but there really isn't anything they can do about it except warn people not to reply to it. I have got the same and forwarded it to APS, but to day no answer! How they ask about 4 number pin code, it is easy to think it's a fake!! -- Jean-Paul DROGER (enlever "anti." et remplacer "ptt" par "wanadoo" pour me joindre en perso; remove "anti." and replace "ptt" by "wanadoo" to answer me directly) |
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I received a similar kind of thing today from "eBay."
I went to the purported site, which looked of course like eBay, except the address was not eBay. Just to mess with them, I wrote a couple of obscenities in the "name" and "password" boxes. :-) |
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John Ray wrote:
I am, as it happens, an APS member, so I wonder if their membership database has been hacked. Have any other members of this newsgroup had the same? Not I. -- Kaleb S. KEITHLEY |
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