Scams like these

[wandering_fred]

Never tribute actions to malice when plain stupid will suffice...

I figured out what was happening when a second email arrived...

Happy wandering

Fred

 

[wandering_fred]

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: I've just spoken to your father
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 07:22:02 +0000 (UTC)
From: spyros
To:
Hey, how are you? I just made 2420$ profit in 2 days with that website help. You can check it too, it's still free.
http://www.[redacted]/
My best wishes to you and your father.
Tom

Were he still with us my father would be 125...

Happy wandering

Fred

 

[prozac]

Were he still with us my father would be 125...

Happy wandering

Fred

Crikey Fred, that makes you about 99!

 

[wandering_fred]

Crikey Fred, that makes you about 99!

Well certainly over 21 (and under 75)

Happy wandering

Fred

 

[whatmeworry]

Beware Ransomware. A guy in Melbourne reported he was held to ransom by hackers demanding he pay $10k or they would realise a video of him self pleasuring himself.

Remember the black tape on the webcam ladies and gentleman.

'Webcam hackers caught me wanking, demanded $10k ransom' - Hack - triple j

 

[prozac]

My camera has been taped for some time. Hell, I don't want anyone looking at my ugly litso during a Skype meeting.

 

[wandering_fred]

Web cam? What's a web cam asks my computer...

For those using a laptop / portable / smart phone use common sense...

Happy wandering

Fred

 

[QF WP]

Got this one and I'm not sure whether it's a scam or real, regardless I'm not going to answer as I don't care what they do in China or Asia....

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Ying
Sent: Wednesday, 27 July 2016 2:39 AM
To: [myemailaddress]@[mycompanyname].com.au
Subject: "[mycompanyname]ientcommunity"

Dear CEO,

(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. If this email affects you, we are very sorry, please ignore this email. Thanks)

We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in China. We received an application from Hualong Ltd on July 19, 2016. They want to register " [mycompanyname]ientcommunity " as their Internet Keyword and " [mycompanyname]ientcommunity .cn "、" [mycompanyname]ientcommunity .com.cn " 、" [mycompanyname]ientcommunity .net.cn "、" [mycompanyname]ientcommunity .org.cn " 、" [mycompanyname]ientcommunity .asia " domain names, they are in China and Asia domain names. But after checking it, we find " [mycompanyname]ientcommunity " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?

Best Regards,

Jim
General Manager
Tel: +86 21 6191 8696
Mobile: +86 187 0199 4951
Web: [redated] but a webregisry in cn

 

[prozac]

Annoyed as I am now expecting more scam mails over coming years to sort through following notification from Vietnam Airlines their site has been hacked and FF accounts compromised. Currently down to only 1 or 2 emails a week.

 

[RAM]

Annoyed as I am now expecting more scam mails over coming years to sort through following notification from Vietnam Airlines their site has been hacked and FF accounts compromised. Currently down to only 1 or 2 emails a week.

It is good to see they are being upfront about it.

When Citibank got hacked (6 years back I think it was) through one of their clearers located in the US they lost tens of millions of CC details. Accounts affected were from over 8 countries (including Australia).

My closed Platinum CC was one of them and nearly $30K spent on the CLOSED platinum CC account later (in 20 hours) my remaining Citi CC was useless for months (no credit left).

Citibank Australia NEVER acknowledged publicly the loss of CC account details - I found it out by doing some research after the 4th frustrating phone call to them. Despite notifying them within minutes of the last fraudulent transaction (as remaining open account had a transaction declined) - Citi NEVER notified a single merchant impacted by the $30k in transactions.

Many of the merchants only sent out the goods 48 or more hours AFTER we blew the whistle. Some later contacted us for help in their battle against Citi but last I heard (18 months later) was Citi told them to take legal action if they wanted to.

 

[JohnK]

Web cam? What's a web cam asks my computer...

For those using a laptop / portable / smart phone use common sense...

Assuming you have a webcam?

What a silly society where scammers are able to use your own equipment to blackmail you.

 

[eastwest101]

Here is the page.

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/63?lang=en

Just Delete Me | A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.

Just on that link - the just delete me page also had a link to another very interesting video on Dark Patterns and upsell on LCC web sites that I found very interesting, the most fascinating bit was around the 12min mark where they analyse the Ryanair web site design, but the whole thing is worth watching if you have time. Link here:

Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

 

[RAM]

Just on that link - the just delete me page also had a link to another very interesting video on Dark Patterns and upsell on LCC web sites that I found very interesting, the most fascinating bit was around the 12min mark where they analyse the Ryanair web site design, but the whole thing is worth watching if you have time. Link here:

Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

...and assuming the link itself is not a scam.

How paranoid we are forced to become in these days of technology.

Could it be a link designed to teach you a lesson (perhaps a VERY expensive one) about clicking on links without ensuring their authenticity?

Time to go watch
Conspiracy Theory (1997) - IMDb

www.imdb.com/title/tt0118883/


IMDb


Rating: 6.7/10 - ‎75,934 votes
With Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart. ... The 90's movies ... Award-winner Mel Gibson stars as a comedically paranoid taxi · Conspiracy .


Sometimes being paranoid means you are actually being prescient!


(I really hope after all that nobody clicked on the IMDB (supposed) link - I really do)

 

[prozac]

...
(I really hope after all that nobody clicked on the IMDB (supposed) link - I really do)

Why, were you teaching us something?

 

[RAM]

Why, were you teaching us something?

NO and yes.

No - nothing untoward in the link (I added).

Yes - to make people think twice before they accept something as "OK' or "true/correct/honest" because it is written somewhere.

I never cease to be amazed by how many people simply accept (as true) what they see written in a newspaper or magazine, or often what they hear on the news.

With the increasing sophistication of scam emails, web sites and even phone calls - the need to question veracity before acting has never been more important.

It will not be long before widespread scam emails start appearing where they DO contain targeted personal information sourced from 'hack auction' sites. Such as a fake utility bill with your actual account number and last statement amount owing. Perhaps it will be to do with your credit card - but the amount of hacked data for sale currently is huge.

So, it would be of interest to know if anyone did click on the link to the movie review.

When I last did something similar (but put a false link that went to wikipedia-scam instead) it caught out about half my colleagues at work. It was a real email warning about a scam email that had come in to a friend of mine working at another company that was extremely targeted - no mass mail out for that one.

 

[RAM]

and while we're on the 'trust me I'm not a hacker/trojan etc

Our 'boffins' protecting Australia from the evil hackers et al have issued an updated guide to keeping your IT safe.

...the advice moves on to how e-mail body filtering and here, the biggie is that you should get rid of clickable HTML links in e-mails; expose obfuscated links; and remove active content (VBScript or JavaScript) from the e-mail body.

Worth a look.(or a search to find the link for yourself)...

Malicious Email Mitigation Strategies Guide: ASD Australian Signals Directorate

Introduction

1. Socially-engineered emails containing malicious attachments and embedded links have been observed by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) being used in targeted cyber intrusions against organisations.
2. This document has been developed by ASD in collaboration with local and international partners to provide mitigation strategies for the security risk posed by malicious emails. It should be read in conjunction with the advice on email security and content filtering contained in the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM).
3. Not every mitigation strategy within this document will be suitable for all organisations <or AFFers but many will>. Organisations should consider their unique business requirements and risk environment when deciding which mitigation strategies to implement. Furthermore, before any mitigation strategy is implemented, comprehensive testing should be undertaken to minimise any unintended disruptions to the organisation’s business.

 

[whatmeworry]

ABC's The Checkout will be doing a segment on wine and the dodgy medals/ratings that are awarded.

 

[Major]

This is the second time i am sending you this mail.

I, Friedrich Mayrhofer Donate $ 1,000,000.00 to You, Email Me personally for more details.

Regards.
Friedrich Mayrhofer


No problem Fred...I'll give you my bank A/c details so you can deposit the funds :shock::evil:

 

[Spongbob]

Even Carter Pewterschmidt got scammed. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scammed_Yankees

 

[Buzzard]

This is the second time i am sending you this mail.

I, Friedrich Mayrhofer Donate $ 1,000,000.00 to You, Email Me personally for more details.

Regards.
Friedrich Mayrhofer


No problem Fred...I'll give you my bank A/c details so you can deposit the funds :shock::evil:

I have a bank account with $0.00 in it. I've been hoping for such an invitation so I can have a play with the scammers. Would I be entering dangerous waters?