Why the h3!! am I getting these every day now?

[Archae]

Anyone else getting them also?



Online Customer ID-446135,

Customer Support are remind you that on 21, February 2005 our Online Review Team identified some unusual activity in your banking account. In accordance with SouthTrust Financial Corporation's Agreement and to insure that your account hasn't been compromised, internet access to your savings account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this problem has been resolved. If your account access to stay blocked for a long period of time may effect in further restrictions on the use of your bank account and possible account closure.Review Team advise you to sign on and fulfil the steps necessary to restore your account access as soon as possible. Log In to Online Account Page


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This is a security measure meant to help protect you and your online account. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Customer Support apologize for any inconvenience.

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[KitchenWitch]

1. Yes

Getting them ALL the time. Also got one from the bank where I am a customer, to an email address that they could not have possibly obtained. Someone needs to come up with some sanctions for people who do this type of thing.

[FloridaPat]

2. Yes. Usually a couple a week. They work so well, lots of thieves

are doing them. Never click the button for any of these, including Paypal and Ebay.

I understand about 25% of the people that get these respond. Goodby savings and checking and anything else they can go after.

[Be Brave]

3. Yes, I've been getting this a lot lately, too.

Only in my case it's Washington Mutual and Huntington Bank.

These people are pathetic and annoying.

[tjwash]

4. Most of the proxies are in Korea.

As soon as one gets traced down, they shut it down another one springs up in a different part of the world.

[EC]

5. Haven't much lately since I report them as spam......n/t

[meow2u3]

6. Forward this phishing scam to your ISP

and send a copy to http://www.fraud.org

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Get 'em all the time...

and what I do is forward the email with, ALL the headers, to the institution. Many of them have teams set up to work on this.

Most of the time.

Sometimes, I look up the originating ISP and forward it to their abuse team if they seem like the types who might take action.

It's gotten to the point that any script kiddie who finds a warez site can set up one of these phish scams without working up a sweat.

Eudora and Opera now have routines to warn of the site isn't a real one, and they work on the most obvious ones.