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PayPal account verification scam

John Counsel — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:54:12 +0000

This is a variation of the usual PayPal account phishing scam. A couple of glaring spelling errors helps, along with the fact that there’s NO email address for the recipient in the headers.

iTunes fake gift certificate scam

John Counsel — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:45:23 +0000

Can you see a pattern emerging in all these scams? Think they might be from the same gang of online criminals?

The errors in English used are more subtle in this one, but they’re there. (We don’t point them out: there’s no benefit in teaching better English to criminals trying to steal your money, your identity or your computer.)

UPS fake invoice scam

John Counsel — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:38:56 +0000

This is a common malware/botnet scam claiming to be from UPS. It’s not.

Tell-tale signs include names in the BCC: field (valid emails never display the content of the BCC:, or BLIND Carbon Copy, field — that’s the whole point of that field, to mask the addresses), and really obvious errors in the English used. Punctuation errors, too.

Westpac phishing scam

John Counsel — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:26:54 +0000

Here’s a phishing email I haven’t seen before. Definitely a scam (I bank with Westpac and this isn’t from them.)

As always with scams, there are basic errors in the spelling, grammar, punctuation or syntax.