[153740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EBAY and AMAZON
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goemon@anime.net)
Mon Jun 11 15:42:13 2012
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:39:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: goemon@anime.net
To: Bryan Irvine <sparctacus@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAG367gbk=fnaT=pED8kg=jnCHi_22NtKOtp+9eA4mZWYM1P5yQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Sometimes I wonder how many nanog'ers would fall for a phishing email sent
to this DL. I suspect the number is more than 0.
-Dan
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Bryan Irvine wrote:
> Yup. They hope that the message contents are a coincidence and scare
> you into seeing (i.e. clicking on..) what's it's about.
>
> This happened to me a few years ago where I changed my ebay password,
> and about 30 minutes later got a phishing email that my password
> change failed. So I clicked the link and re-did it. As soon as I
> clicked on the submit button I noticed that the URl I was forwarded to
> was to some server in Russia. /facepalm.
>
> I went and sheepishly changed my ebay password AGAIN that very moment,
> with a bit of awe towards the clever con I had fallen into. Luckily I
> noticed. But how many others didn't?
>
> -B
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think it's a troll, trying to shock you into clicking on something.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Nick Olsen <nick@flhsi.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think it might just be coincidence. I've gotten about 10 of them and
>>> haven't been to ebay or amazon in months.
>>> Most of them have been for >60 dollar books.
>>>
>>> Nick Olsen
>>> Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>> From: "Brandt, Ralph" <ralph.brandt@pateam.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:28 PM
>>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>>> Subject: EBAY and AMAZON
>>>
>>> I have received bogus emails from both of the above on Friday.
>>>
>>> These look like I bought something that in both cases I did not buy.
>>> The EBAY was a golf club for $887 and the Amazon was a novel for $82,
>>> far more than I would have spent on either.
>>>
>>> I think I looked at the novel on Amazon and I remember the golf club
>>> came up on a search with something else on Ebay.
>>>
>>> How this information could get to someone spoofing is a little
>>> disconcerting.
>>>
>>> I have changed EBAY and Paypal Passwords as instructed.
>>>
>>> Ralph Brandt
>>> Communications Engineer
>>> HP Enterprise Services
>>> Telephone +1 717.506.0802
>>> FAX +1 717.506.4358
>>> Email Ralph.Brandt@pateam.com
>>> 5095 Ritter Rd
>>> Mechanicsburg PA 17055
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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