Posts Tagged ‘phishing’
Sunday, June 17th, 2012
Competing in the Virus Bulletin VBSpam Challenge, OnlyMyEmail has again blocked more spam than any other filtering system, and for the ninth consecutive time.
The latest competition ran for 16 consecutive days, during which, OnlyMyEmail’s MX-Defender accurately filtered out more spam than all other competitors tested, missing just 12 spam emails out of 191,893 total. This represents a spam capture rate of 99.994%.
By comparison, the next best capture rate was Libra Esva which missed nearly 500% more spam, 59 emails in total. The third best blocking rate went to M+Guardian which missed 115 spam emails from the same spam corpus.
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Tags: fraud, phishing, scam, spam, Virus Bulletin VBSpam Competition
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
The latest abuse of Google Docs for email theft appears in your inbox as:
Subject: Mailbox Closure Warning!!!
or
Subject: WEBMAIL ADMIN.ntc
If that manages to grab your attention, the content of the message goes further:
Helpdesk requires you to upgrade webmail by Clicking
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGkzVVg4WGlMaWFpaGdYcG1wVlV4cVE6MQ
This Message is From Helpdesk. Due to our latest IP Security upgrades we have reason to believe that your webmail account was accessed by a third party. Protecting the security of your webmail account is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive webmail account features. Failure to revalidate, your e-mail will be blocked in 24 hours.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Tags: fraud, phishing, spam, spoofing
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Sunday, May 13th, 2012
The latest bank Phishing Fraud emails to make the rounds via email are targeting HSBC Bank customers and clients.
The emails typically arrive shouting out warnings in all capital letters:
Subject: ACCOUNT VALIDATION REQUIRED!
And greet you as their “Dear Esteemed HSBC customer,”
Strong wording explains that you need to take immediate action to protect your account. An example of such a message:
Your Account Validation did not work properly. We are experiencing difficulties in updating your account from our maintainance servers as some information are either out of date or missing from our systems.
To this end, we are contacting you to please validate your account information with us.
To begin log on to internet banking on https://www.hsbc.ae/1/2/InternetBanking/?SecureLogin with your internet Banking credentials and validate your account with us as soon as possible.
This Email is subject to mandatory action. Failure to comply will lead to suspension of account activities with HSBC. HSBC will bear no responsibility of any mishaps caused if no action is taken.
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Tags: fraud, phishing, spoofing
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Friday, May 4th, 2012
In the never-ending quest to steal identities, there seems to be no limit to the sites that spammers and cyber-criminals will try to impersonate.
Many web users are now understandably suspicious of emails claiming to come from Ebay, Paypal or their bank. And, we’ve already seen email frauds claiming to come from Netflix, Vonage, Linked-in and of course Facebook.
Now your cellular service emails can no longer be trusted either…..
An email Phishing fraud campaign is actively making the rounds with emails falsely claiming to come from Verizon such as:
Subject: Your Bill Is Now Available
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Tags: fraud, phishing, scam, spam, spoofing
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Here’s something we really don’t see every day….
We recently received an email claiming to be from the U.S Department of Justice Victim Notification System (VNS)
Subject: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System
From: Courtney Walker <fedemail@vns.usdoj.gov>
To: Business Representative <address>
Our typical “common sense” check for email Phishing Fraud starts with the obvious:
- Overly serious/threatening Subject line…. check!
- Human sender doesn’t match email address…. check!
- Impersonal and generic salutation… check!
The email itself open with:
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI – New York
26 Federal Plaza, 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10278
Phone: (212) 384-2564
Fax: (212) 384-4104
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Tags: botnet, DOJ, FBI, fraud, Government, humor, phishing, Privacy, scam, Security, spam, spoofing
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
Look out for fraudulent emails spoofing “The Electronic Payments Association” that are arriving as:
From: risk_manager@nacha.org
Subject: Rejected ACH payment
In reality these messages are from previously infected personal computers from across the globe:
from [122.168.251.32] (helo=ABTS-mp-dynamic-032.251.168.122.airtelbroadband.in)
These messages include a fictional warning that includes content such as:
The ACH transaction (ID: 32604668345041), recently sent from your checking account (by you or any other person), was rejected by the other financial institution.
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Tags: botnet, fraud, malware, phishing, scam, spoofing, zombie
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Spammers are nothing if not persistent, and even more so when it comes to the most sinister ones that are trying to steal your identity and your entire bank account.
They’re also smart enough to Phish in the biggest pools of potential victims, so the endless stream of cons targeting JP Morgan Chase customers makes perfect sense.
The latest comes with a subject:
Please Restore Your Account Access
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Tags: fraud, phishing, scam, spoofing
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
A clever Craigslist Phishing fraud is using a highly targeted approach to trick Craigslist advertisers into giving up their username and passwords.
The trick is to provide the headline from an actual Craigslist posting in order to help evade spam filtering and more importantly, to increase the likelihood of fooling the recipient into believing the “Confirmation for Posting” is legitimate.
A typical email will arrive such as:
Subject: Your ad, titled ’1970 short bed ford ‘ has been posted.
From: craigslist <acount@pueblo.craigslist.org>
The Subject line will vary according to match the title of the specific Craigslist posting.
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Tags: fraud, phishing, scam, spam, spoofing
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Thursday, July 14th, 2011
As the biggest banks get bigger, they capture even more attention from spammers and online criminals intent on stealing legitimate user’s accounts.
Such is the case with JP Morgan Chase and yet another Phishing fraud email now circulating:
Subject: Chase Online Alert: Debit Card/ATM Deduction from Account
From: Chase Online Alert <Chase@emailnotify.chase.com>
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Tags: fraud, phishing, scam, spam, spoofing
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Monday, July 11th, 2011
While spam volumes may be down, the Phishing fraud’s continue in high volume with Craigslist.org users being highly favored targets.
Look for these spam emails to trap unsuspecting users:
Subject: Account Update Notice
From: ”craigslist” <help@craigslist.org>
While they spoof “help@craigslist.org” as the sending address, most that we’ve reviewed have come from various hijacked Earthlink accouts:
from elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.70])
from elasmtp-scoter.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.67])
Here’s a complete copy of one of these “Account Update Notice” frauds:
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Tags: craigslist, fraud, phishing, spam, spoofing
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