Is this a joke?

R

Richard

I just got an e-mail from an outfit using the name "South trust bank".

Smells like a scam right off the start.
"Dear customer........your account is in......."

Huh? What account? I do not have an account with you buttheads.
So curios me clicks on the link and......
"ACCESS DENIED"
Say what?
I kid you not. See for yourself.
https://southtrustonlinebanking.com/

<html><head><title>Directory Listing Denied</title></head>
<body><h1>Directory Listing Denied</h1>This Virtual Directory does not allow
contents to be listed.</body></html>

That's the entire coding for the page.
Now what's the point of wasting everyone's time with junk mail that doesn't
go anywhere that's even useful?

Ok. So which one of you clowns is responsible?
'fess up now. You've been caught.
 
H

Hywel Jenkins

I just got an e-mail from an outfit using the name "South trust bank".

Smells like a scam right off the start.
"Dear customer........your account is in......."
Click to expand...

Looks like a phishing scam, you dipshit. What would that have to do
with us? Do you really think you're work the effort, RtS?
 
N

Norman L. DeForest

I just got an e-mail from an outfit using the name "South trust bank".

Smells like a scam right off the start.
"Dear customer........your account is in......."

Huh? What account? I do not have an account with you buttheads.
So curios me clicks on the link and......
"ACCESS DENIED"
Say what?
I kid you not. See for yourself.
https://southtrustonlinebanking.com/

<html><head><title>Directory Listing Denied</title></head>
<body><h1>Directory Listing Denied</h1>This Virtual Directory does not allow
contents to be listed.</body></html>

That's the entire coding for the page.
Now what's the point of wasting everyone's time with junk mail that doesn't
go anywhere that's even useful?

Ok. So which one of you clowns is responsible?
'fess up now. You've been caught.
Click to expand...

It's probably a phishing attempt. The host most likely nuked the
phisher's page before you got to see it. It would have likely been
a phoney copy of the bank's website with a form to enter your account
information. Had you had an account at that bank and had fallen for
the fake notice you received and the fake website, the phisher would
have cleaned out your bank account.

Customers or possible customers of eBay, PayPal, just about every bank
in the civilised world (and also the US) and credit card companies have
been targetted for this scam.

Some warnings by a few of the companies concerned:

USBank: Email Fraud Information and Help
http://www.usbank.com/cgi_w/cfm/promo/personal/fraud_email_info_and_help.cfm
USBank: Identity Theft
http://www.usbank.com/cgi_w/cfm/personal/achieve_goals/id_theft.cfm

eBay: Spoof Email Tutorial - Page 1
http://pages.ebay.com/education/spooftutorial/

Scotiabank - Safe Computing Practices
http://www.scotiabank.com/cda/content/0,1608,CID417_LIDen,00.html

Visa Canada | Personal Card Options | Secure With Visa
http://www.visa.ca/en/personal/shop_protect_email.cfm

RBC Royal Bank - More New and Notables
http://www.rbcroyalbank.com/products/fraud_advisory.html

Phishing in the
"BBC NEWS | Technology | E-mail scam hits MBNA customers"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3518411.stm

"MercuryNews.com | 07/22/2003 | ID thieves `phish' for victims with fake
e-mails, Web sites"
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6356396.htm

"ContraCostaTimes.com | 07/22/2003 | Phishing' latest Internet scam"
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/business/6356590.htm?1c

"PCWorld.com - 'Phishing' Scam Reports Jump"
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116163,00.asp

Resources for combatting phishing:

Anti-Phishing Working Group
http://www.antiphishing.org/index.html

Anti-Phishing Working Group - Stop Phishing and Email Scams
http://www.antiphishing.org/resources.htm

Federal Trade Commission - ID Theft
http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/

Federal Trade Commission - Protect Against ID Theft
http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/protect_againstidt.html#12

RCMP Frauds and Scams - Identity Theft
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams/identity_e.htm

out-law.com - legal news and business guides
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=phishingprotection1082046132&area=news
 
B

Barbara de Zoete

Customers or possible customers of eBay, PayPal, just about every bank
in the civilised world (and also the US)
Click to expand...

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S

SpaceGirl

Richard said:
I just got an e-mail from an outfit using the name "South trust bank".

Smells like a scam right off the start.
"Dear customer........your account is in......."

Huh? What account? I do not have an account with you buttheads.
So curios me clicks on the link and......
"ACCESS DENIED"
Say what?
I kid you not. See for yourself.
https://southtrustonlinebanking.com/

<html><head><title>Directory Listing Denied</title></head>
<body><h1>Directory Listing Denied</h1>This Virtual Directory does not allow
contents to be listed.</body></html>

That's the entire coding for the page.
Now what's the point of wasting everyone's time with junk mail that doesn't
go anywhere that's even useful?

Ok. So which one of you clowns is responsible?
'fess up now. You've been caught.
Click to expand...

By clicking it you verified the phisher/spammer that your email address
is valid and being read... you can probably expect a mass of spam from
now onwards. Are you a total newbie!??? This is a very old (and obvious)
trick, silly! If I were you, dump that email account and get a new one.
We change all of our email accounts once every few months anyway.

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x theSpaceGirl (miranda)

# lead designer @ http://www.dhnewmedia.com #
# remove NO SPAM to email, or use form on website #
 
R

rf

SpaceGirl said:
By clicking it you verified the phisher/spammer that your email address
is valid and being read... you can probably expect a mass of spam from
now onwards. Are you a total newbie!???
Click to expand...

Mir, this *is* RtS we are talking about :)
 
G

Gregory Toomey

SpaceGirl said:
By clicking it you verified the phisher/spammer that your email address
is valid and being read... you can probably expect a mass of spam from
now onwards. Are you a total newbie!??? This is a very old (and obvious)
trick, silly! If I were you, dump that email account and get a new one.
We change all of our email accounts once every few months anyway.
Click to expand...

Some even encode gifs on html email.
Open the email => load gif => verify email address => more spam.

gtoomey
 
B

Bernhard Sturm

On 1/7/2005 6:33 AM Richard spoke thusly
I just got an e-mail from an outfit using the name "South trust bank".

Smells like a scam right off the start.
"Dear customer........your account is in......."
Click to expand...

that's phising... LOL
don't waste your and our time.


bernhard
 
R

Richard

I just got an e-mail from an outfit using the name "South trust bank".
Click to expand...
Smells like a scam right off the start.
"Dear customer........your account is in......."
Click to expand...
Huh? What account? I do not have an account with you buttheads.
So curios me clicks on the link and......
"ACCESS DENIED"
Say what?
I kid you not. See for yourself.
https://southtrustonlinebanking.com/
Click to expand...
<html><head><title>Directory Listing Denied</title></head>
<body><h1>Directory Listing Denied</h1>This Virtual Directory does not
allow
contents to be listed.</body></html>
Click to expand...
That's the entire coding for the page.
Now what's the point of wasting everyone's time with junk mail that
doesn't
go anywhere that's even useful?
Click to expand...
Ok. So which one of you clowns is responsible?
'fess up now. You've been caught.
Click to expand...



Followup:
Apparently, someone is running a scam using "South bank trust" as their
target.
I found the real "south bank trust" website and they are legitimate, and
they have a page dedicated to this e-mail scam thing.
If you should happen to get one of these things, trash it.
 
S

SpaceGirl

Richard said:
Followup:
Apparently, someone is running a scam using "South bank trust" as their
target.
I found the real "south bank trust" website and they are legitimate, and
they have a page dedicated to this e-mail scam thing.
If you should happen to get one of these things, trash it.
Click to expand...

Most people already do...

--


x theSpaceGirl (miranda)

# lead designer @ http://www.dhnewmedia.com #
# remove NO SPAM to email, or use form on website #
 
S

saz

Most people already do...
Click to expand...

My 73 year-old father-in-law fell for the Citibank phishing scam because
he has one of their credit cards. He gave them the credit card number,
his name, address, soc sec number, birthdate, everything.

We are fortunate that one of his sons is in the FBI computer fraud unit,
so we were able to fix things with the credit agencies within 24 hours,
but many are not so lucky.
 
S

SpaceGirl

saz said:
My 73 year-old father-in-law fell for the Citibank phishing scam because
he has one of their credit cards. He gave them the credit card number,
his name, address, soc sec number, birthdate, everything.

We are fortunate that one of his sons is in the FBI computer fraud unit,
so we were able to fix things with the credit agencies within 24 hours,
but many are not so lucky.
Click to expand...

So... what's your account number and pin? ;)

--


x theSpaceGirl (miranda)

# lead designer @ http://www.dhnewmedia.com #
# remove NO SPAM to email, or use form on website #
 
H

Hywel Jenkins

Followup:
Apparently, someone is running a scam using "South bank trust" as their
target.
Click to expand...

Well, duh. I don't believe that anyone can be as stupid as you appear
to be, so now I believe you're a troll, plain and simple.
 
H

Heidi

SpaceGirl wrote:
: We change all of our email accounts once every few months anyway.
:
: x theSpaceGirl (miranda)

We do? *confused*
 
J

Jeffrey Silverman

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:42:08 -0600, Richard wrote:

Followup:
Apparently, someone is running a scam using "South bank trust" as their
target.
I found the real "south bank trust" website and they are legitimate, and
they have a page dedicated to this e-mail scam thing.
If you should happen to get one of these things, trash it.
Click to expand...

I'm surprised you have bnot seen more phishing scams like this. I have
gotten similar scams claiming to be from Wells Fargo, Citibank, Ebay, Pay
Pal, and probably a few others.
 
D

Duende

While sitting in a puddle Hywel Jenkins scribbled in the mud:
Well, duh. I don't believe that anyone can be as stupid as you
Click to expand...

I would have thought RtS would have made you a believer by now.
 
S

Starshine Moonbeam

Hywel said:
Well, duh. I don't believe that anyone can be as stupid as you appear
to be, so now I believe you're a troll, plain and simple.
Click to expand...

No, he really is that stupid. Scary, innit?
 

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