Email phishing

Yet another example of a fraudulent email that is going around, claiming to be from your IT services, asking for all your personal information. Simply DO NOT reply to that.

Ignore this type of email:

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From: © XXXXXXX

Subject: Dear XXXXX Webmail User,

To: undisclosed recipients: ;

Reply-to: maintainance-dpt@w.cn

Dear XXXXX Webmail User,

We wish to inform you about our recent development on our web database and upgrade process which every subscriber must take part on.

We will be shorting our website down within the next 24hours and we need you to verfy your account information with the us for security reasons.

This is to help us recover your email account after this upgrade process has been carried out, we promice that you will not loose any information from your email and we shall not temper with your private informations.

You are required to provide the informations below for verification.

1) Full Name:

2) Email Address:

3) User ID:

4) Password:

5) Date of Birth:

Faliure to patiipate in this upgrade will automatically shortdown your email account with us.

Thank you

Webmaster Service

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Adobe Acrobat Reader phishing attack

Fake emails pretending to come from Adobe guide you to a Web site, where you supposedly can download a new version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Alas, this is a phishing attack.
When you look up adobe-acrobat-upgrade.com, you will find that it is running on a Russian server, and the registrar is an address in London that is probably hijacked, since Google maps/street view shows the address to be a single residental house. This is certainly not Adobe's headquarters....

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The whois entry:

Domain name: ADOBE-ACROBAT-UPGRADE.COM
Name Server: ns3.nic.ru
Name Server: ns4.nic.ru
Name Server: ns8.nic.ru
Creation Date: 2010.06.25
Updated Date: 2010.06.25
Expiration Date: 2011.06.25

Status: DELEGATED

Registrant ID: MYWBV2V-RU
Registrant Name: Emily Johnson
Registrant Organization: Emily Johnson
Registrant Street1: 11 Uxbridge Road
Registrant City: London
Registrant Postal Code: W7 3ST
Registrant Country: GB

Administrative, Technical Contact
Contact ID: MYWBV2V-RU
Contact Name: Emily Johnson
Contact Organization: Emily Johnson
Contact Street1: 11 Uxbridge Road
Contact City: London
Contact Postal Code: W7 3ST
Contact Country: GB
Contact Phone: xxx
Contact E-mail: xxx

Registrar: Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER

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Here the phishing email:

From: Adobe Acrobat Reader
Subject: Download New Adobe Acrobat Reader For Windows
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Dear valued customers,

We are pleased to announce new release of Adobe Acrobat Reader 2010 which will give you more options to view, create, edit, print and share PDF documents.

+ 50% of your daily office works requires document handling.
+ 70% of your documents requires extra processing.
+ 15-20% of your documents requires exchanging with your peers, customers or partners.
+ 30% of such documents are in PDF format, and you need to view, edit, print and share them.

To learn more about new features and install Adobe Acrobat Reader 2010, please:

+ Go to: http://www.adobe-acrobat-upgrade.com/
+ Choose your options, download and start to improve your works.

A full version of Office suite is also available for your download.

Download Today: http://www.adobe-acrobat-upgrade.com/

Best regards,

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2010
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Copy rights PDF Pro 2010 © All rights reserved
Website: http://www.adobe-acrobat-upgrade.com/

Amazon phishing emails.

Phishing emails pretenting to come from Amazon.com are presently flooding into the mail box. However, the links do not go out to Amazon, but to townknow.com. Further, if you look at the numbers, they do not add up. Of the more than 10 emails I got, each had a different amounts for ordering. The number are just made up randomly.

Here is an example:

Thanks for your order, xxxxx

Did you know you can view and edit your orders online, 24 hours a day? Visit Your Account.

Order Information:

E-mail Address: ?xxxx

Order Grand Total:?$ 57.99
?
Earn 3% rewards on your Amazon.com orders with the Amazon Visa Card. Learn More

Order Summary:
Details:
Order #: D93-0103230-8760417 Subtotal of items:? $ 41.99 ? ------ Total before tax:? $ 25.99 Sales Tax:? $ 0.00 ? ------ Total for this Order:? $ 52.99

The following item was ordered:
Click here and see items, Price: $ 82.99
By: Click here
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
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The charge for this order will appear on your credit card statement from the merchant 'AMZN Payment Services.'

You can review your orders in Your Account. If you've explored the links on that page but still have a question, please visit our online Help Department.

Please note: This e-mail was sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming e-mail. Please do not reply to this message.

Thanks again for shopping with us.

Amazon.com
Earth's Biggest Selection

In another example the total order was 74.99, with a total of 0.99. What rubbish. Don't click on this.

Order Grand Total:?$ 74.99
.....

Total for this Order:? $ 00.99

Fraud email: European Economic and Social Committee

I am reposting this from an earlier blog entry, just as a reminder.

Another fraud email. Sure, a European Committee has a Chinese email - yeah, right.

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
99, rue Belliard
B-1040 BRUSSELS
TEL/FAX:0032 (0)2 513 48 93
eesc.europa.eu

Notification of Cash Grant

We bring to your notice the decision by the board of directors of the European Economic and Social Committee in conjunction with the United Nations to choose you as the recipients of a cash grant for your own personal, educational, and business development(SME funding). To promote growth and avert the effect of the ongoing global credit crisis.

We are giving out a yearly donation of $500,000.00 to 1000 lucky recipients selected from over 150 countries all over the globe with assistance from local community schemes and welfare institutions.
To file for claims, do forward all relevant information about you as well as contact details to the commission's secretary on;

Contact Person: Ann Ruthford
Email: eescgrants@w.cn

Endeavour to quote your qualification numbers: EU/UN001/210AB/YZ676 and must be kept confidential.
Congratulations from members of staffs and directors of the scheme.
Best Wishes
George Green.
EESC Social welfare director

The usual Email quota phishing SPAM email

Yet another example of a SPAM email that tries to fish data from you.

Your mailbox has exceeded the allocated storage limit as set by the administrator,
you may not be able to send or receive new mail until you upgrade your allocated
quota.

To upgrade your quota, please click on the following link:

http://beam.to/accountupdate8457

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

Webmail Support Team.

Tabnabbing, a New Type of Phishing Attack

Tidbits reports on a new type of Phishing attack using tabs in many browsers.
The link to the article.
Basically, you are surfing a compromised web site. Then you switch to another tab. When return to the original site, you see now a login screen, which is fake.
So, the solution at present: If you ever switch to a tab and it's displaying a login screen, just close the tab, ignore the login.

Plenty of fraudulent phishing emails that try to get your username and password

There are plenty of SPAM emails going around these days, claiming to come from the support desk of your email provider, or some other place such as ebay or paypal. Usually, in one form or another, they ask that you reply to them with your username and password to take care of a problem, or they provide a link to a dodgy web site. DO NOT CLICK on the links, or DO NOT REPLY to the email. This is phishing, they simply want your account to abuse it. NEVER give out account information, without verification.
Examples:

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Dear PayPal User,



We are currently under maintenance and we will like you to Update your account in other for you to be able to Send Money, Receive Money, and also Shop online with your PayPal account Click on this Link Below to Update Your Account.

CLICK HERE
Thanks For Your Co-Operation,

PayPal Account Department.

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Your mailbox quota has been exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB as set by your administrator, You are currently running on 20.9GB.



You may not be able to send or receive new mails until you re-validate your mailbox.



To re-activate your account please click the link below:

http://www.acc-central.com/


Thanks and we are sorry for the inconveniences

Local Host.

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Your mailbox quota has been exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB

as set by your administrator, You are currently running on 20.9GB.

You may not be able to send or receive new mails until you re-validate
your mailbox.

To re-activate your account please click the link below

http://www.icebrrg.com/Public/ViewForm.aspx?formID=44302

Thanks and we are sorry for the inconveniences

Local host

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We would like to inform you that we are currently carrying out scheduled maintenance and upgrade of our webmail service and as a result of this; our e-mail client has been changed and your
original password will be reset. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

To maintain your e-mail account, you must reply to this email immediately, and provide the the following details of your account:

Account Name:
Current Password:
Contact Phone:

Failure to do this within the next forty-eight hours will immediately render your email account deactivated from our database.

For Help and Support, contact the Technical Support help desk at:technicalsupportteam20009@gmail.com

Thank you for using our webmail.

Webmail Service,
Technical Team.
©Networks All Rights Reserved.

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Dear Webmail Account User,

This message was sent automatically by a program on Webmail admin center
which periodically checks the size of inbox, The program is run
automatically to ensure no user inbox grows too large. If your inbox
becomes too large, you will be unable to receive new emails. Just before
this message was sent, you are currently running on 20.9 GB, You have has
exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB.

To help us re-set your Account SPACE on our database prior to maintain
your INBOX, you must reply to this e-mail providing us your the Below
information:

E-mail ( ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... )
Username/ID ( ... ... ... ... ... ... )
Current Password ( ... ...... ... ) Retype Password: ( ... ...... ... )

From this point you will be unable to receive new email as it will be
returned to the sender, Provide the above information to enable us help
reset your webmail immediately.

NOTE: Your Webmail Account Expire in Three (3) Days. After you read this
message, it is best to REPLY with the required information to upgrade
MailBox. Reply to this message immediately to Re activate your Account.

Thank you for your cooperation.
Webmail Help Desk. System Administrator
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Confirm Your Webmail Identities.

Your Webmail Quota Has Exceeded The Set Quota/Limit Which Is 20GB.
Your Are Currently Running On 23GB due to hidden files and folder on your
Mailbox.Please you are to follow the Below information to Validate Your
Mailbox And Increase Your Quota.

First Name:
Username/ID:
Password:
Confirm Password:

*Important*
Please provide all these information completely and correctlyotherwise due
to security reasons we may have to close your accounttemporarily.We have
been sending this notice to all our email accountowners and this is the
last notice/verification exercise.

Thanks
HELPDESK SUPPORT.

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Dear Webmail User,
This message was sent automatically by a program on Webmail which
periodically checks the size of inboxes, where new messages are
received.
The program is run weekly to ensure no one's inbox grows too large. If
your inbox becomes too large, you will be unable to receive new email.
Just before this message was sent, you had 18 Megabytes (MB) or more of
messages stored in your inbox on your Webmail. To help us re-set your
SPACE on our database prior to maintain your INBOX, you must reply to
this e-mail and enter your

Current User name (_________)
and Password(________ )

You will continue to receive this warning message periodically if your
inbox size continues to be between 18 and 20 MB. If your inbox size
grows to 20 MB, then a program on Bates Webmaiwill move your oldest email
to a
folder in your home directory to ensure that you will continue to be
able to receive incoming email. You will be notified by email that this
has taken place. If your inbox grows to 25 MB, you will be unable to
receive new email as it will be returned to the sender.
After you read a message, it is best to REPLY and SAVE it to another
folder.

Thank you for your cooperation.
Webmail Help Desk