Yet another nitwit trying to scam you
"Emails purporting to be from the Citigroup Security Management Staff, which seek to gather confidential login information from you. These emails are part of a fraudulent attempt to get access to individual bank accounts.
Ironically, the note?which contains the CitiBusiness logo?indicates that it seeks this information from you as part of a security upgrade designed to protect you from fraud.
Rich
Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever respond to any email that asks you to log in to anything. NEVER.
If you have an online account somewhere always navigate there in your own browser with your own links stored on your own machine. And forward that email to the security team at wherever it refers to .com
Whew Sorry for ranting all, those crims make me sick and I hate to see them scamming nice folks.
RRhyne56
[url=http://www.robinscustomleadersandflies.com:7b8a2]http://www.robinscustomleadersandflies.com[/url:7b8a2]
IM = robinrhyne@hotmail.com
What we need to do is inform the public of these scams and tell them what emails to respond to and which not to. Obviosly, some study has indicated that people fall for them, or they wouldnt still be doing it.
I have a very keen sense of what to click adn what not to click. If you actually won a contest from a real company, I dont think they would contact you by email these days.
[url=http://www.scambusters.org/:d15a1]http://www.scambusters.org/[/url:d15a1] [url=http://www.snopes.com/:d15a1]http://www.snopes.com/[/url:d15a1] [url=http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxnew.htm:d15a1]http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxnew.htm[/url:d15a1] [url=http://urbanlegends.about.com/:d15a1]http://urbanlegends.about.com/[/url:d15a1]
These are good sites for checking out something that seems too good to be true.
The popular scams, phishes, etc., will say your account at (fill in the blank) has a problem, a survey can get you (fill in the blank), etc. You get the idea.
Rule one: keep anti-virus and anti-spyware up to date and run often. You cannot be too careful.
Rule two: never click on a link or download a file, even if you know the person. Contact the sender and confirm they sent you a file. If a company sends you an email, go directly to their site and initiate the check yourself from their site.
Rule three: be careful where you and the kids surf. Even “nice” sites like neo-pets contain spyware.
There are some great Anti-virus and Anti-spyware programs out there, and many are free. However, they are not the be-all/end-all. Each one tackles things a little differently so it’s okay to have three anti-spyware programs.
Anthony,
Actually companies do contact by email especially if there’s more than one winner, and especially if the company is leans to the IT and the contest was primarily on-line, ie surveys from Home-Depot, etc.
These surveys, of course, are totally different than the ones that just pop up from no where. Legit surveys are printed on your register or product label, etc., and often linked on their company homepage.
I can’t imagine why anyone would ever respond to ANY e-mail, for any reason whatsoever. 
Donald
Just in today’s email we have 3 from eBay ‘members’ asking how we want payment for the item…We have never used eBay for anything!
2 from PayPal asking us to update our information. We have never used PayPal for anything!
1 from Chase Manhattan Bank, same story:
We have never used Chase Manhattan for anything!
1 from Morgan trust…We have never used Morgan for anything!
We receive at least 100 of these each week.
We don’t respond of course. I wonder if this legally falls into internet abuse?
Does anyone have an email address where this stuff can be forwarded as ‘phishing’ or attempts of identity theft?
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LF, …
Does anyone have an email address where this stuff can be forwarded as ‘phishing’ or attempts of identity theft?
Most of the banks, e-bay, payPal etc who are being used as “bait” for phishers have sites to report attempts.
'fur instance Citibank is at: [http://citibank.com/domain/spoof/reportspoof.htm[/url:671ad]
which has a link to:
emailspoof@citigroup.com
also: [url=http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/index.html:671ad]http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/index.html[/url:671ad]
[url=“https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/general/SecuritySpoof-outside”]https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?c … of-outside](http://citibank.com/domain/spoof/reportspoof.htm:671ad)
and Forward suspicious emails to: spoof@paypal.com [url=http://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/index.cfm?template=privacysecur_prevent_fraud&adlink=000302078f760000b579:671ad]http://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/index.cfm?template=privacys ecur_prevent_fraud&adlink=000302078f760000b579[/url:671ad]
and To report a suspicious email that uses Bank of America’s name, you can forward it to abuse@bankofamerica.com.
All you need to do is Forward the e-mail to that adress.
I get actually quite a few, … after a few friends boards got their serveurs hacked.
I use FireBird at home, … so lots of crap gets filtered out automatically.
The filters at the office get most of the rest. IT in Vancouver told me they filter literally THOUSANDS of e-mails each and every day.
Sad really
Christopher Chin, Jonquiere Quebec
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/Forum1/HTML/015738.html:671ad]2006 FishIn Ste-Marguerite River[/url:671ad]
[url=http://pages.videotron.com/fcch/:671ad]Fishing the Ste-Marguerite[/url:671ad]
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Ebay will accept phishing reports via email at spoof@ebay.com
Forward the original mail with full headers. Most email apps suppress most of the header info since users normally don’t care about anything other than where it came from (usually wrong for these things) and the subject line.
The good info that helps locate (sometimes) the sender is hidden unless you show full headers. Different email apps use different commands for showing the full headers so poke around a bit or post which email app you’re using and somebody with access to that app can give the exact command/menu/etc.
I’ve sent lots of phishing reports to ebay and paypal. They’re usually pretty quick about verifying if it’s a scam and they have an auto reply setup with detailed info on generally avoiding the problem.