Internet Fraud

Internet Summaries

I am growing weary of constantly receiving fraudulent phishing emails. Here are a few recent examples. I have been getting one almost EVERY day from Paypal imitators.





The term "phishing" refers to criminal individuals who send out emails, pretending to be from large, prominent companies. Their purpose is to obtain your personal account information, so that they may access your account, and CLEAN IT OUT. They are "fishing" for suckers - people who don't realize that the email messages are totally PHONY. DO NOT RESPOND to these emails. If you are REALLY mad, file a report on them with the FTC - the United States Federal Trade Commission - they have a VERY big stick.
Here are 3 examples I received this last week.

Ebay Phishing Email . . . Paypal Phishing Email . . . Visa Phishing Email

Pretty slick, right? Often, if you carefully and critically read these bogus emails, you will see that they they just don't measure up to "Big Company Quality", regarding proper English grammar. It's Christmas time, and many criminal types want to steal your money. Call the main number of the organization involved, and verify any such email such as the above. You'll be glad you did. Or simply ignore them.

My personal recent fraudulent emails (multiple from each source) -
Bank of the West phishing fraud
Charter One Bank phishing fraud
Huntington Bank phishing fraud
Regions Bank phishing fraud
Sky Bank phishing fraud
SouthTrust Bank phishing fraud

My personal recent fraudulent email - Nigerian type emails
"I have millions of dollars I must transfer to the US- send me your bank account number, so I can share it with you.". Oh, sure. Yeah. Right.

Examples:
From: Mr. Wang Lee . . . . . . lee.wang@virgilio.it
greetings from doris . . . . . . . doris

more later, with details
If you send me a phishing email, expect it to be published.
This stuff really piffes me off
How about you?

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