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Convincing new PayPal phishing scam

John Counsel — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:38:41 +0000

This is one of the more convincing PayPal phishing scam emails we’ve seen for a while — but it’s still a scam! For a start, the recipient address isn’t associated with any PayPal accounts… a dead giveaway.

The usual tell-tale signs are all present, too. Here are the details.

As a matter of routine, you should NEVER click on a link like the one shown. PayPal doesn’t send them. It requires you to log-in to your PayPal account using your normal address, which you already know.

Adobe® Reader Update Download Scam

John Counsel — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:18:57 +0000

This scam is potentially very dangerous and, while it may be a phishing scam that tries to hijack your Adobe® account, it’s almost certainly going to load your hard drive with some form of malware. The file size of the attachment isn’t large enough to be a genuine Adobe® application, but it’s typical of a malicious script. Typical botnet script approach.

Another LinkedIn phishing scam

John Counsel — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:44:15 +0000

Same old same old, but still plenty of ignorant, gullible, inexperienced, careless or thoughtless suckers who’ll fall for it, even though it’s blindingly obvious.

Apple ID Phishing Scam

John Counsel — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:45:47 +0000

Typical phishing scam email. All the usual tell-tale signs that rely on the recipient’s ignorance, inexperience, carelessness or gullibility.

Facebook Lottery Phishing Scam

John Counsel — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:59:43 +0000

Yep, it’s another really clumsy Facebook scam to steal your identity, bank account, etc. Lots of bad English, spelling errors and other obvious stuff — including no email address for the recipient (otherwise it might not match your Facebook email address, right?)

Three new phishing scams

John Counsel — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:26:22 +0000

Don’t fall for these obvious scams

Three new versions of old identity-theft phishing scams are doing the rounds…

Latest round of phishing scams

John Counsel — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:03:46 +0000

This latest round of phishing scams target Facebook, Twitter and a range of other membership accounts online claiming that your password or other access details have been changed from 1 November, so you need to either get hold of your new password, etc, or enter new ones.

Yeah… right!

Incredibly, thousands of dummies will fall for this scam, as they always do. Just take a look at this info graphic I received today. Not even addressed to one of my Facebook account-linked email addresses… and includes copies to several unrelated people.

The attachment is a standard phishing scam form asking for all your account info so they can hijack your account and steal your identity.

If you get scammed by this one, you deserve it.

Tax Scams: IRS and ATO

John Counsel — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:47:52 +0000

How can you tell they’re both scams? Easy — I have over 160 sites, many with .au domain names because I live in Melbourne, Australia, the World’s Most Liveable City (yep… back in #1 spot again for 2011).

That means I get BOTH versions of this scam, to multiple addresses, NONE of which either the IRS (USA) or ATO (Australia) have on file. Plus one of the versions below actually posts multiple email addresses in the address field (a real bozo scammer).

If you receive any version of this email scam message, do NOT open the attachment.

This is the Australian version of the scam message

This is the US version.

YouTube Phishing Scam

John Counsel — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:02:28 +0000

More of the same, except this time is claims to be from YouTube.

Twitter Phishing Scam

John Counsel — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:59:12 +0000

Standard-issue phishing scam email claiming to be from Twitter.

Objective: to steal your identity and your Twitter account, and the IDs of your followers.

Clumsy and inept, but still people fall for these really easy-to-detect scams in droves.