Posted by David Sherman on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 at 2:23AM :
In Reply to: Scam alert posted by arthur p bloom on Monday, November 22, 2004 at 11:47PM :
They send you to a spoof website that looks like the login page of the bank or paypal or ebay, and try to get you to enter your login info and then all your financial data (account numbers, etc). If you click on the link provided, you will see what looks like the real login page, but in the address bar, it will be usually either a URL ending in ".ru", since most of the crooks are in Russia, or it will be just a dotted-decimal IP address. Whenever I get one of these emails, I always go to their fake page and enter a bunch of bogus info so the Ruskies will at least waste some time before they find out the numbers are bogus.
They send these things to everybody, regardless of whether you actually have an account at the company mentioned, assuming that some of the people they send them to will have an account there. For some reason, most of the scam emails I get claim to be from CitiBank, even though I don't have an account there.
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