Where to Forward Phishing or Nigerian 419 Scams
Posted: 31 Dec 2006 1:55 pm
Where to forward "Phishing Scams"
Do NOT forward PayPal, Ebay, or bank phishing scams to the SGF Security Officer. His concern is to track down and block Nigerian (and similar) scammers who attempt to commit overpayment fraud against sellers of items and services on the SGF.
More details about reporting scams against SGF sellers are found below the horizontal divider.
Phishing scams (phoney warnings from banks, credit unions, eBay, PayPal, setup to steal your identity) should be forwarded to either abuse@ or spoof@ (domain.com).
Examples:
Bank Of America phish emails should be forwarded to abuse@bankofamerica.com
PayPay phishing scams should be forwarded to spoof@paypal.com
Ebay phishing scams go to spoof@ebay.com
You can lookup the exact address for abuse/phishing complaints, for various websites/companies, by using the search field at Abuse.net
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Where to forward (Nigerian) financial fraud/check-kiting scams aimed at SGF members, with items for sale on the SGF.
These scams typically involve the seller receiving a badly worded inquiry offering to purchase the item for sale and pay way more than the selling price, then asking you to refund the difference to their shipper, or to wire it to Nigeria.
Another take on this is to offer to have their (Son/Daughter) come to your city for extended lessions, for which they will overpay and request a refund by Western Union.
Forward suspected Nigerian scams to the Security Officer for the SGF, Bobby D. Hunter, at: wizardodelasteel @ hotmail.com (remove the spaces around @)
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A new place to report Phishing scams
Phishing Scams are sent via emails that try to fool or frighten people into clicking on the cloaked links in the message body, which appear to lead to the specified website but really go to a copy-cat website that closely resembles an authentic place of business, but which is designed for the sole purpose of stealing your login name and password for the targeted institution. Once you are fooled into divulging this information your money, or credit cards, or auction feedback rating, or identity will be stolen by professional thieves. EBay sellers are frequently the targets of phishing attempts. A scammer who gets your eBay login can open an auction in your name, using your feedback rating, and sell non-existant items to angry buyers who will blame you for ripping them off.
Examples of commonly phished websites are eBay, PayPal, Bank Of America and other well known financial institutions and brokerage firms. The topic following this one describes where you should forward emails you suspect of being scams, based on the company's name. I encourage everybody to forward phishing scams to the targeted companies, but before you do, grab the complete source code (display, select all, copy) and read the next paragraph.
Now there is a new place to file phishing reports, where people in positions to do something about it will act quickly to get those websites taken offline, as soon as possible. The initiative is known as PIRT (Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination) and is a global phishing termination operation launched by CastleCops and Sunbelt Software. PIRT is funded by CastleCops. Become a PIRT Squad terminator by reporting phish scams today!
The reporting page is at http://www.castlecops.com/friedphish.html
There is a form that asks you to paste in the source code of the email that is a phishing scam and/or enter a complete phish URL. If you don't know how to obtain the source code read the other topics I have posted in my announcements, on this web page.
Let's help take these websites down as quickly as possible. If you receive a phishing scam email act as soon as possible to report it.
Do NOT forward PayPal, Ebay, or bank phishing scams to the SGF Security Officer. His concern is to track down and block Nigerian (and similar) scammers who attempt to commit overpayment fraud against sellers of items and services on the SGF.
More details about reporting scams against SGF sellers are found below the horizontal divider.
Phishing scams (phoney warnings from banks, credit unions, eBay, PayPal, setup to steal your identity) should be forwarded to either abuse@ or spoof@ (domain.com).
Examples:
Bank Of America phish emails should be forwarded to abuse@bankofamerica.com
PayPay phishing scams should be forwarded to spoof@paypal.com
Ebay phishing scams go to spoof@ebay.com
You can lookup the exact address for abuse/phishing complaints, for various websites/companies, by using the search field at Abuse.net
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Where to forward (Nigerian) financial fraud/check-kiting scams aimed at SGF members, with items for sale on the SGF.
These scams typically involve the seller receiving a badly worded inquiry offering to purchase the item for sale and pay way more than the selling price, then asking you to refund the difference to their shipper, or to wire it to Nigeria.
Another take on this is to offer to have their (Son/Daughter) come to your city for extended lessions, for which they will overpay and request a refund by Western Union.
Forward suspected Nigerian scams to the Security Officer for the SGF, Bobby D. Hunter, at: wizardodelasteel @ hotmail.com (remove the spaces around @)
<hr>
A new place to report Phishing scams
Phishing Scams are sent via emails that try to fool or frighten people into clicking on the cloaked links in the message body, which appear to lead to the specified website but really go to a copy-cat website that closely resembles an authentic place of business, but which is designed for the sole purpose of stealing your login name and password for the targeted institution. Once you are fooled into divulging this information your money, or credit cards, or auction feedback rating, or identity will be stolen by professional thieves. EBay sellers are frequently the targets of phishing attempts. A scammer who gets your eBay login can open an auction in your name, using your feedback rating, and sell non-existant items to angry buyers who will blame you for ripping them off.
Examples of commonly phished websites are eBay, PayPal, Bank Of America and other well known financial institutions and brokerage firms. The topic following this one describes where you should forward emails you suspect of being scams, based on the company's name. I encourage everybody to forward phishing scams to the targeted companies, but before you do, grab the complete source code (display, select all, copy) and read the next paragraph.
Now there is a new place to file phishing reports, where people in positions to do something about it will act quickly to get those websites taken offline, as soon as possible. The initiative is known as PIRT (Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination) and is a global phishing termination operation launched by CastleCops and Sunbelt Software. PIRT is funded by CastleCops. Become a PIRT Squad terminator by reporting phish scams today!
The reporting page is at http://www.castlecops.com/friedphish.html
There is a form that asks you to paste in the source code of the email that is a phishing scam and/or enter a complete phish URL. If you don't know how to obtain the source code read the other topics I have posted in my announcements, on this web page.
Let's help take these websites down as quickly as possible. If you receive a phishing scam email act as soon as possible to report it.