Beware Of This Sophisticated Email Scam.

[sassienie]

Email scammers are putting more resources into scamming you.

A few days ago I received an email, apparent from my email provider.

It links to a web site which is created by scammers that very convincingly appears to be an actual web page and form from the email provider.

It asks for personal details, such as credit card and bank details.

This is one of the most sophisticated email scams I have seen and has been professionally created to fool you in order to obtain your email user name and password plus steal money from your credit card accounts.

Although this is specifically aimed at AOL accounts, the scammers can create these web sites for any email providers.

Please note that no bank or email provider would request information via an email on an unsecured web site.

Beware and don’t get scammed by this one.

See graphic below for details of scam:

Edited July 17, 2009 by sassienie

[ukrules]

The best way to see if it's legitimate or not is to move your mouse over the link and see if the link text and the actual URL that it's being linked to match / use the correct domain for the service you are looking at.

The actual link URL is normally displayed at the bottom of most email clients when you move the mouse over it (same as the web browsers) as far as I can see. I use Thunderbird but maybe other programs are different.

Edited July 17, 2009 by ukrules

[roamer]

Lets start at the beginning. Had you incorrectly entered your security data 3 times (and therefore not been able to access your account) ? No ? I am trying, and failing, to see what is "sophisticated" about a bog-standard phishing email. Old hat, fails at the first hurdle.

[wasabi]

And we would have got away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids.

[BSJ]

I am amazed that there are still people getting stung by these scams!

[Livinginexile]

Wow that is very good!

I wonder how much they get from these scams.

[yabaaaa]

Even if my bank call me or credit card company I always say i will call them back just to verify, all these comapnies never ask for your info in an e mial and always use your name not "Dear Customer"

[RoastLamb]

Only a fool would get caught out by this. It even asks for your PIN! lol. Thanks for the warning but really, if you need to be warned, there is no hope for you, disconnect your internet immediately.

[cathyy]

Yep, that's a bog-standard phishing scam. A simple piece of advice that works well is to never click on a link in an email to go to a website, even if you think it is legitimate. Always type it in or use a bookmark.

[khundon]

Anyone falling for this old scam deserves to lose their money.

Look for the HTTPS So this is a scam.

[easyride]

Lets start at the beginning. Had you incorrectly entered your security data 3 times (and therefore not been able to access your account) ? No ? I am trying, and failing, to see what is "sophisticated" about a bog-standard phishing email. Old hat, fails at the first hurdle.

Yes nothing sophisticated here. I get this sort of sh_ite all the time even from banks where I don't hold an account. However, give the guy some leeway - it might be his first time.

Another good check is in another post but I'd have thought that any organisation worth its salt would use an https address. (secure webpage). I've never heard of any phishing people using secure sites.

Can allways be wrong though

[Datsun240Z]

This is dangerous!, I also almost tripped into one from Nigeria. It's becoming more and more this type of scams.

[eefoo]

Couple of classics in the phishing mail;

"You are strictly advised to match your security details rightly to avoid service denial" and "You have been directed here because of an inquiry requarding the billing portion of your AOL account.

As crap as AOL is, (and anyone who is still using it deserves all they get), at least they do know grammar and spelling.

[wpcoe]

Lets start at the beginning. Had you incorrectly entered your security data 3 times (and therefore not been able to access your account) ? No ? I am trying, and failing, to see what is "sophisticated" about a bog-standard phishing email. Old hat, fails at the first hurdle.

I think that the scammers are hoping that you fear someone else (unauthorized) has been trying to access your account.

[webfact]

Email scammers are putting more resources into scamming you.

A few days ago I received an email, apparent from my email provider.

It links to a web site which is created by scammers that very convincingly appears to be an actual web page and form from the email provider.

It asks for personal details, such as credit card and bank details.

This is one of the most sophisticated email scams I have seen and has been professionally created to fool you in order to obtain your email user name and password plus steal money from your credit card accounts.

Although this is specifically aimed at AOL accounts, the scammers can create these web sites for any email providers.

Please note that no bank or email provider would request information via an email on an unsecured web site.

Beware and don’t get scammed by this one.

See graphic below for details of scam:

I can see some additional "danger" in your attachment. Obviously this mail was opened via Gmail. You accessed gmal with http:// not https:// as strongly recommended !

NEVER access gmail with http! You can switch to https on the very first settings page.

On https access I trust a red warning sign is displayed above this mail warning you it is a phishing mail or Google thinks it is.

Google has one of the strongest phishing and spam detection you can find in web based email. So my guess is - access always your email with https

Edited July 20, 2009 by webfact