Clever Phishing Scheme offering free European trip
Mar 29th, 2005, 12:31 PM
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Clever Phishing Scheme offering free European trip
Everyone is familiar with those nefarious emails that ask you to enter your Paypal details or your bank account info, or whatever.
I got a very clever email from the Expedia-Canada.com domain - which is not Expedia.ca! In fact, Expedia-Canada.com is registered to a Paris address. The site uses the Expedia.ca logo, but has no links to the legitimate Expedia at all.
The email offers you the possibility of winning a free trip to whatever European city you choose if you enter a "draw". But what they're really trying to do is capture your birthdate, name, address, etc.
So double-check any such "offers" to ensure they are actually legitimate.
The originating IP for the email is 216.251.115.222. The email falsely claims to be from "[email protected]".
I got a very clever email from the Expedia-Canada.com domain - which is not Expedia.ca! In fact, Expedia-Canada.com is registered to a Paris address. The site uses the Expedia.ca logo, but has no links to the legitimate Expedia at all.
The email offers you the possibility of winning a free trip to whatever European city you choose if you enter a "draw". But what they're really trying to do is capture your birthdate, name, address, etc.
So double-check any such "offers" to ensure they are actually legitimate.
The originating IP for the email is 216.251.115.222. The email falsely claims to be from "[email protected]".
Mar 29th, 2005, 12:50 PM
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There are many scams like that out there. I got one from ebay once that looked very real (email address is similar and logos, etc look just like the real thing - and I had recently bought something off ebay so at first it seemed reasonable, till I really thought about it). I got another once recently from my bank, which of course was not really my bank at all, saying that they were doing a software update and needed me to confirm my information - asking for things like birthdate, social security number etc. Be very careful, the logos and such are very realistic looking. Sounds like there are a lot of them out there.
Mar 29th, 2005, 09:24 PM
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It appears I was *too* suspicious for once. Here is a snippet of email I got from Expedia.ca:
Thank you for contacting Expedia.ca regarding the e-mail titled Trip of
Your Dreams. This is a legitimate promotion that is being offered by
Expedia.ca. If you have any questions please contact Expedia.ca at the
number listed below for a customer service representative to assist you
further.
Nonetheless, I didn't like how they were asking for name, address, phone number, and birthdate to enter the contest.
Thank you for contacting Expedia.ca regarding the e-mail titled Trip of
Your Dreams. This is a legitimate promotion that is being offered by
Expedia.ca. If you have any questions please contact Expedia.ca at the
number listed below for a customer service representative to assist you
further.
Nonetheless, I didn't like how they were asking for name, address, phone number, and birthdate to enter the contest.
Mar 30th, 2005, 07:23 AM
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They ought to know better.
The e-mail should invite subscribers to go to the site themselves (without providing a link) and see what's on offer.
It looks so much like a phish that many people will delete it without investigation. Not very effective marketing.
The e-mail should invite subscribers to go to the site themselves (without providing a link) and see what's on offer.
It looks so much like a phish that many people will delete it without investigation. Not very effective marketing.
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