Check out this email scam. This is funny

[Jim B]

A guy i work with got this in his email. Someone is trying to scam a card number. Read the email below. I just cant believe someone would be stupid enough to fall for this. The bestpart is this guy dosent even have a citibank account.



DEAR _citibank Cleint,

>

> This EMAIL was sennt by the Citibank sevrer to veerify _your_ _EMAIL

> address_.

> You muust cmleptoe this poecsrs by clicking on_the_link below and

> enntering in the litle window your CITIBANK _Debit full Card Nummber

> and pin that you use_ on the ATM Machine.

> That_is done - for your petrcotion -3- because some of_our memebrs no

> lngoer have acescs to their email adsdesers and we must verify it.

>

>

http://www.citibankcard.com:%679701%70%70%76%64%43%57%4c%56%52%41%61%54%7a@%6b%764%622%6e%63%78%61%2e%64%41%2e%52%75/%3f8%57%5a%763%77

>

> To veerify _your_ e-mail address and access your Citibank_ account,

> clic on_the link below_.

>

> j0vOXATdJ0dKqE

>

 

[Bill McElroy]

...anybody stupid enough to fall for that probably doesn't have anything worth stealing anyway...LOL

 

[Tony Payne]

I got one the other day that "thanked me for the email they did not recieve"...(I will try to post the exact words later)...



The net of it appeared to be an attempt at a major "opt in" list....



idiots... all of them...

 

[Staci Matheis]

You guys actually open that trash???????

 

[Jim B]

i didnt, a guy i work with did. Its pretty funny.

 

[Texas Transplant]

I get them all the time, confirming my order for something. See them in the preview window, and just delete them.



Starting to get all kinds of 'crap' at my work address. Thought that the company had better filters than that in place.



Tex

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

I have a 2 billion dollar check to cash but need an American bank account....please send me yours and your pin. And for your trouble I will pay you 10 million.



Seriously, we got bombarded here in DC because one of those crafty scammers sent out an email as the FDIC looking for information. Not good......



TOXIC

 

[Steve Rizza]

The guy that wrote that must have went to the same school as the guy that sends me ads for Viagra.The spelling is identical.

 

[Tony Payne]

Believe it or not, the spelling errors are intentional!



This get's them by the spam filters that check the content for particular words, combinations of words!



I think the people that sell the spam filters are the same ones inventing new ways to get by the spam filters!

 

[Larry Harp]

Sitting here at the "House of Unemployment" with the TV on Tech TV. The guy says that the spammers have a way of knowing when you highlight the e-mail when it's in the preview screen and can tell if they have a good e-address even if you don't open the message. He said that is because of html in Outlook and we should all keep Outlook and Outlook Express set to plain text. Does anybody know more about this sort of thing?



Harpo

 

[Tony Payne]

Yeah,



that's why I use Eudora and turn off HTML formatting!



Outlook/OUtlook express is one of the worst offenders for security concerns.



The technique they use, especially with html formatting/images is to use the image transfer to key things on the primary server. (cookies, whatever).



They usually don't care if the address is valid, misses are free in internet land (atleast as far as they are concerened).



But they can tell if people are seeing the email. (number of hits on a particular image.... add a path, a query line, etc and you can verify what batch, and what emial it went to).



Some of the new waves of email viruses specifically target the weaknesses in outlook and what preview provides... I specifically do not preview any message I dont know where it came from.



as far as from highliting a message, I seriously doubt that... unless it gets it into preview.

 

[Travis Smith]

Any one who would fall for that shouldnt own a computer.









T.S.