Re: spamming virus

I don't have a PayPal account either, or at least I thought I didn't. Yesterday I got a notice my credit card was expiring. They said i needed to respond with my security code, and then they told me the last 4 digits of the specific card, and the old security code. That all made me pretty nervous.


On 10/3/2013 9:47 AM, Norm Dennis wrote:

My wife received a good one today, she received a notification from PayPal
stating that an eBay purchase had been made for $112 from her account. As
she started to rant about someone using her account, she realised she
doesn't have a PayPal account.

Of course there was the obligatory link so she could login and further
scrutiny showed the link was to a site in Thailand.

I also received a different type today, a gmail calendar invitation that
tried to do some sort of automatic execution.
Looks very sophisticated.

Norm Dennis

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Whenever I get an email that claims to be from my bank I log into the bank
instead.

However if my cell phone gets a text asking me if I want to transfer money
from account A to account B, which is running a little short, I see no
problem replying back with A 250 to transfer 250 dollars. And I literally
mean A. I am not using that as a symbol.


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From: "Norm Dennis" <nhdennis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'PC Technical Discussion for IBM i \(AS/400 and iSeries\) Users'"
<pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 10/01/2013 06:25 AM
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] spamming virus
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Yes, I believe there is an increase.

I seem to win a lottery every second day and all of my banks, even some
that
I wasn't aware I had accounts with, seem to be having problems with my
accounts.
A lot of emails from generally African countries, trying to find someone
to
take millions of dollars from abandoned accounts or crooked generals or
public servants.
I must admit though, I haven't had the regular bulk Viagra advertising of
late.

I had a very sophisticated notification from a bank advising that my
regular
electronic statement was ready.
There was a link where I could login to the 'bank' to retrieve my
statement,
all the correct bank location details, logo's, etc.
Highly professional, identical to the real bank, except that is was not my
bank but one that my wife banks with.
Obviously the link was not to the actual bank.

Most of the rubbish is being trapped but some sneak through.
Anything that looks valid but requires bank or government department login
gets extra scrutiny.

You just can't be certain anything is valid.

Norm Dennis


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Sent: Monday, 30 September 2013 7:59 PM
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Subject: [PCTECH] spamming virus

So is there like some major email spamming virus going around? I'm
getting
a bazillion emails from people peddling Rx's. All craftily created to get
through our Message Labs wall.


Rob Berendt
--
IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail
to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com

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