I guess the financial turmoil here in the US has given inspiration to the phishing phools… I’m getting double the number of these:
Attention: Beneficiary,
The Sum of 6.8 million Dollars has been credited in your favour, Do contact Mrs Linda White with your Full Data as Flollows:
1.Your full Name:…
2.Your Sex:… .
3.Delievery Address:…
4.Tel & Fax No:…
Age and Nationality:…
Regards,
Mrs Linda White.
Secretary.
I love how they expect me to turn over all my personal information to get the ridiculously high dollars from a person I don’t know with an unidentified company, and who don’t even know my name. Riiiiiiiight.
It must work though, or they wouldn’t keep trying, I suppose. I am trying mightily to resist the urge to just reply with “Bullshit!”. Don’t want to give them satisfaction of knowing I even opened it. You can report such trash to reportphishing@antiphishing.org
It must just be your turn in the cycle Annie.
Mine have dropped off a bit, having reached a high point 6 or so months ago.
Though, as I mentioned in an earlier thread, I was tickled to receive one, recently, in French. I s’pose because I’ve bought books from amazon.fr?
Probably because there’s a huge untapped pond of people, who are Spanish-speaking, who are new enough to computers that they may not yet be as jaded and unfoolable as those of us who’ve been getting phished for years.
The only ones I’ve gotten lately are those that are supposedly from a bank - that I’ve never banked with- saying that I need to follow the link and update my info.
I just got a rash of those from Scotiabank. I don’t even live in Canada, let alone have an account with them. The last email told me there were putting a freeze on my account and to contact them IMMEDIATELY so they wouldn’t have to do that. Sure…put a freeze on an account that doesn’t exist. More power to you.
I really don’t get many. The Scotiabank ones were the first ones in a very long time. My regular email account is pretty good at filtering that stuff out, so I don’t even see it until I check my spam folder for important stuff every week.
It seems that I get a lot of spam arriving at the same time that I receive a legitimate email. This makes me wonder if it is the act of sending an email by certain senders, or that act of my receiving an email that is activating the spam, or perhaps there is no relationship and I am misperceiving this. Anyone know of any relationship?
Your computer probably goes and checks for new email at certain intervals, and so you get whatever pile has been sitting there waiting, good stuff and junk at the same time.
My oldest e-mail-account usually got real mails sent to other people - they were definately no spam. Once I even got somebodys wedding pictures with a thank you note to some Michelle. - I don’t even know one.
I noticed though that the actual recipient’s address was not very different from mine. It seems like the mail delivery service only recognises the first few letters and the part after the @-sign of an email address.
Maybe this also explains the strange mails about bank accounts, etc. I don’t get these often, though. I wonder how tired (or else mentally altered) you’d have to be to answer those. Who in their right mind tells their phone, credit card and what-not numbers to total strangers?!
You can report such trash to reportphishing@antiphishing.org
