Drew
Banned
Registered: 24th Nov 01
Location: County Durham
User status: Offline
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Subject: Your account overdue
Date: 24/05/2004 08:49:33 GMT Daylight Time
From: d_agriffineu@magma.ca
Dear customer,
We encountered a billing error when attempting to renew your AOL membership services. This type of error usually indicates that either the credit card you
have on file has expired or that the billing address we have on file is not current.
Please use the link below to update your billing information.
AOL Billing Center
If you feel this as an error and you want to discontinue your AOL membership, please disregard this message and call our customer service to cancel the service.
America Online Billing Department
© 2004 America Online, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Marc
Member
Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
User status: Offline
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well done Drewston.
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Drew
Banned
Registered: 24th Nov 01
Location: County Durham
User status: Offline
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why thank you
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Ian
Site Administrator
Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
User status: Online
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Part of the growing phenomenon known as 'phishing'.
Online banks usually suffer these as well.
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PaulW
Member
Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
User status: Offline
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yes I received one of these to my orange.net account 
made me chuckle!
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luca2020
Member
Registered: 26th May 02
Location: Maidstone, Kent
User status: Offline
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Same on mobile phones, i know a few people including me saying uve got a new international mail box, please ring this number to set your password, dodgy as fuck
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Dan B
Member
Registered: 25th Feb 01
User status: Offline
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quote:
Originally posted by Drew
Subject: Your account overdue
Date: 24/05/2004 08:49:33 GMT Daylight Time
From: d_agriffineu@magma.ca
Dear customer,
We encountered a billing error when attempting to renew your AOL membership services. This type of error usually indicates that either the credit card you
have on file has expired or that the billing address we have on file is not current.
Please use the link below to update your billing information.
AOL Billing Center
If you feel this as an error and you want to discontinue your AOL membership, please disregard this message and call our customer service to cancel the service.
America Online Billing Department
© 2004 America Online, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Not a very good phishing attempt, they've not even made the email-address look authentic...
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Drew
Banned
Registered: 24th Nov 01
Location: County Durham
User status: Offline
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thats was 1 reason i knew why
another was it would have been sent to main account, not mine
another was link went to www.aol-dd - not www.aol.com/???
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Joff
Member
Registered: 17th Oct 00
Location: Cambridgeshire
User status: Offline
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Had a cracking one from "Lloyds TSB".
The URL on the email looked genuine and opened up the genuine Lloyds homepage, but also loaded a PopOver window with their fake login screen.
Quite clever - I pity the fool that falls foul to these scams.
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Dan B
Member
Registered: 25th Feb 01
User status: Offline
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There was a similar one with the Hotmail login-screen a while back, it actually looked identical to the Hotmail login-screen (that they'd used about 3 years previously, the official site had been updated about 5 times since then)...
Although you couldn't tell the difference (apart from the updates) unless you went into the scripting for the "Submit" button......which I did, found the email-address it submitted the login-details to, and reported it to Hotmail.
Got a nice response saying that because it wasn't a direct email-abuse case, they were doing nothing about it......nice of them!
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Drew
Banned
Registered: 24th Nov 01
Location: County Durham
User status: Offline
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i got a hotmail one too - looked identical
was to view someones 'web site'
i put my name and pass in, clicked enter, then thought foook, this aint right, and quickly changed my password
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Ian
Site Administrator
Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
User status: Online
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"According to Avivah Litan, a Gartner research director and the author of the study based on the survey, 57 million Americans have been, or think they have been, the victim of a phishing attack. In all, 30 million were positive, while 27 million weren't sure.
Out of that pool, an amazing number fell for the scams--11 million, or about 19% of those attacked, said that they'd clicked on the link in the phishing E-mail. More ominous for the banking and credit-card industry--the prime target of phishing--almost 2 million, or about 3% of those attacked, reported that they'd actually divulged sensitive information, like a credit-card number, by filling in a form on the spoofed Web site the link them to. "
2 million people fell for it 
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