[mdlug] Email BOFA Scam: FYI

[Dave]

Jim Broughton wrote:
> Garry Stahl wrote:
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>> David Lane wrote:
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>>> I't just so messed up that people are doing this kind of stuff.
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>> Old as the hills David at least it is now.  I get many a good example of
>> the "art" and so far always from "banks" I don't bank with.
>>
>> This kind of scam is the main reason banks do not deal with customers
>> via e-mail.  It is too insecure.  I generally toss anything like that,
>> Pay-pal, ebay, any number of banks, the IRS (yes, I got one Friday in
>> fact.  Those I forward) And let us not forget our generous friends in
>> Nigeria whose rich relatives are dropping like files.
>>
>> All it really requires is swiping the look and feel of a bank website,
>> not hard, constructing your fake site sending out your mails and reaping
>> the benefits of the foolish.  They obviously hook enough fish to keep
>> doing it.
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> I used to follow the links in those and type obscene messages into the log
> in boxes at the fake website the scammers had setup.
> Then that got boring. Now my filter catches most of those.
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> Jim
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>   
If I'm bored, I'll fill in their form with bogus information, including 
an email with something @fbi.gov or the like, and enter an old VISA 
card's number, but I scramble the last 8 digits... one of them is 
incremented until their check sum is met on their credit card validation 
script... this will allow them to try and submit the fraudulent 
transaction with a bogus account and bogus security #. Maybe the account 
they are trying from gets flagged in the process. If enough people 
poising their phishing trip, they will start to get caught more often. 
At least it eats their bandwidth.
-dave