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Best Phishing Scheme In A While

I generally hesitate to call much attention to those nasty phishing schemes out there. Check out the level of audacity presented here.

Hello from  Amazon.com!


As a precaution, we’ve reset your Amazon.com because you may
have been subject to a “phishing” scam.

Here’s how phishing works:

A scam artist sends an e-mail, which is designed to look like it came
from a reputable company such as a bank, financial institution, or
retailer like Amazon.com, but is in fact a forgery. These e-mails
direct you to a web site that looks remarkably similar to the
reputable company’s web site, where you are asked to provide account
information such as your e-mail address . Since that web
site is actually controlled by the phisher.

Go to amazon.com
to read more about ways to protect yourself from phishing.

To regain access to your Amazon customer account:

1. Go to “Your Account” link at the top of
our web site.

2. Please sign in to your Amazon account and update your billing information:

3. If your account information is not update, your account on Amazon will be terminated.

Thank you for shopping at  Amazon.com

Sincerely,

 Amazon.com

Please note: this e-mail was sent from an address that cannot accept
incoming e-mail. To contact us about an unrelated issue, please visit
the Help section of our web site.

Now a few things to consider.

  1. You just have to love how these creeps are warning their targets about phishing and even go so far as to provide a resource to such an effect.
  2. This url - amazon.com - is actually pointing to http://190.16.196.11/web/update.html which is not refreshing to http://www.yoursitebasis.com/components/… I myself found this interesting as yoursitebasis.com appears to be a web hosting company targeting the medical field.

But hey. At least these creeps were kind enough to share how the basics of phishing works, even if it meant that they themselves were actually the crooks implementing the scam in the first place. Very interesting indeed.

One Comment

I haven’t received any phishing scemes lately but the ones I have recieved in the past are for accounts I donb’t even have, like banks I never even heard of. Pay pal too which I don’t have an account with either. So I’ll fill them out with information that is as real as their account is. Stuff I just make up. Fake name, credit card number, etc.

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