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707-955-3042 Another Credit Card Scam
03 weeks ago
by john
in el telemarketer-o
The bad guys are limiting themselves here a bit.
“From x97329@nextel.com
7079553042: Dear H&R Block customer your EmeraldCard has been locked. Call 7079553042 to unlock it.”
They are hoping that who ever get’s this text message is an H&R Block customer and that they have an EmeraldCard. So you call back the number and then you have to key in your entire credit card number, expiration date and your PIN.
The voices are all computer readouts, no actual voice recordings. the IVR is pretty advanced. It challenges the number you key with the actual structure of mastercard. So I threw in a test MC just to see what would happen. Sure enough they tried to run charges through using the bogus data sent over.
If your reading this then your part of an audience that is SURELY cleaver enough not to fall for this sort of scam but perhaps someone may “google” that number and be pre-warned of such a silly attempt.
Scammers using kids now…
01 month ago
by john
in el telemarketer-o
In the mail bag today:
From: “Barbara Cole”<bcole@go.com>Subject: Help me pleaseDate: December 31, 2011 3:06:54 PM CSTTo: undisclosed-recipients:;Reply-To: <bcole013@yahoo.co.jp>I’m Barbara Cole, I’m 15 years old girl I live in Bolton UK before my Dad passed away in a car accident 3 years ago, I now live with my step mother in Warrington, My mother died immediately she gave birth to me. My late Dad Mr.Norman Cole was a big business man in UK before he died in a car accident 2007 I am the only child of my Dad, he died 3 days after the accident, He Will all his life savings to me, I have been trying to collect the funds from the bank but the bank MD CEO refused, he said I should present someone old enough so he can transfer the funds to the person that I can’t be in control of the huge amount of funds because I am still a teenage and it is against the UK law.
I would have told my step mother to assist me in collecting the funds from the bank but she is not a good woman, my Dad warned me about her before he died, now that I live with her I now understand that what my Dad said about her was true, because she don’t give me attention she don’t care if I am alright or not, all she do is to take hard drugs and bring different men to the house. I don’t want to have anything to do with her. If I get her involved in this she will use all the funds to take hard drugs. All I wish for right now is someone old enough and honest to help me collect my funds from the bank as I am still a teenage and it is against the UK law. Why I can’t wait until i am 18 years is because what my step mum is doing to me is not fair and i don’t want her to Influence me with her bad life style i just wan’t to live so i can live a better life.
I know we don’t know each other but please I need your help if you can assist me to collect the funds from the bank I will give you 50% out of the funds, Then you will help me invest my 50% until I am 18 and I will be staying with you or you will get somewhere for me to stay until I am 18 years old.
If you agree to help me, I will send you a copy of the Will and my picture so you will know me, and I will send you the contact of the Bank and tell you how much is the funds so you can contact them, and I will inform the bank that you will contact them that you are the person that want to help me.
I will be waiting for your urgent reply so I can send you the contact of the bank and my father’s Will and death certificate.
Please this letter has to be confidential,and I need your 100% trust and loyalty because the lawyer I got involved wanted to made away with the money, so I told the bank not to transfer the funds to him, I already promised to give you half of the funds so please be honest with me.
If you are interested please reply me on my email: bcole013@yahoo.co.jp
Best Regards
Barbara Cole
XM Radio, should I trust you?
02 months ago
by john
in el telemarketer-o
I got a new car, well a used car but new to me, and in it came an XM receiver. As little as I listen to the radio, I wasn’t really interested but I do enjoy listening to NPR and the local NPR (KMBH/KHID) do horrible jobs with their local programing. The chance of listening to a national feed of NPR would be very appealing. So I went to XM’s site and found this FAQ
How do I activate the SiriusXM radio in a new pre-owned vehicle?
So i clicked and was taken to:
https://listenercare.siriusxm.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3677
that directed me to
https://care.siriusxm.com/oemaccountauthentication_view.action?fromLogin=true
I was prompted to enter my zip code and ESN #
Now this car was bought in a local lot so the chance of having the same zip code as the previous owner is fairly high. I put in the info and was given this page next..
I was then giving the previous owner’s name, account number and address.
Companies who we chose to do business with should make more effort to ensure that the information we trust with them is protected. Consumers also need to be aware of what that give out. I try and always use my post box for an address instead of my home address. I also give out my google# instead of my home/cell numbers. Also assigning email addresses that can be tracked to find out who is giving it out helps greatly.
Mail Bag
03 months ago
by john
in el telemarketer-o
Call me paranoid but I really don’t like giving out my email address to just anyone. If you have my email address, you should consider yourself pretty darn lucky. When I’m asked to sign up for something or an email address is required, I usually use an email address specifically created for one time use or junk. Before this used to just be an email aliases of my actual address- but recently I split the two so I can know exactly what is sent to the fake address. Here is what’s in that inbox right now…
I went ahead and clicked on a few (with a html disabled for added protection) just to see what was in some of these.
Poor George
24 months ago
by john
in el telemarketer-o
there comes a time when you quit feeling sorry for the people that fall for these things.
From: “Trustees”<trustees@solicitors.com>Subject: WillDate: October 25, 2011 9:01:52 AM CDTTo: undisclosed-recipients:;Reply-To: <lawofficeinuse@gala.net.>On behalf of the Trustees and Executors of the estate of Late George Brumley, I wish to notify you that he made you one of the beneficiaries of his estate.
Please reply with your contact details.RegardsDavid
freeusipad.com
04 months ago
by john
in el telemarketer-o
what sounds too good to be true.. usually is. I didn’t write a post of my ownn but here is a good article describing this week’s el-telemarkete-o
http://www.zszn.com/2011/06/21/free-us-ipad-what-a-joke/
FDIC wanna-be
05 months ago
by john
in el telemarketer-o
So i get this email today,
Dear Business Owner,
We have important information about your financial institution.
Please click here to see further details.
This includes information on the acquiring bank (if applicable), how your accounts and loans are affected, and how vendors can file claims against the receivership
I have to admit, the bad guys are getting better at grammar and presentation. Once you click on this link it takes you to a site with a “please wait while page is loading” At the same time, your browser begins to download a file, information1234234.pdf.exe
I’m sure all of you are smart enough to not open a file that’s automatically downloaded to your computer and i’m sure your smart enough to see that it’s really an exe and not a pdf and i’m sure your smart enough not to be using an os or browser that can launch exe’s.
Domain Name………. fdicuser-advice.com
Creation Date…….. 2011-09-15
Registration Date…. 2011-09-15
Expiry Date………. 2012-09-15
Organisation Name…. WILLIAM ONASCH
Organisation Address. 6849 HAYVENHURST AVENUE
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. VAN NUYS
Organisation Address. 91406
Organisation Address. CA
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES
Admin Name……….. WILLIAM ONASCH
Admin Address…….. 6849 HAYVENHURST AVENUE
Admin Address……..
Admin Address…….. VAN NUYS
Admin Address…….. 91406
Admin Address…….. CA
Admin Address…….. UNITED STATES
Admin Email……….
Admin Phone………. +1.8187865480
Admin Fax…………
Tech Name………… YahooDomains TechContact
Tech Address……… 701 First Ave.
Tech Address………
Tech Address……… Sunnyvale
Tech Address……… 94089
Tech Address……… CA
Tech Address……… UNITED STATES
Tech Email………..
Tech Phone……….. +1.4089162124
Tech Fax………….
Name Server………. yns2.yahoo.com
Name Server………. yns1.yahoo.com
It’s like they are not even trying sometimes…
05 months ago
by john
in el telemarketer-o
So I get this letter in the email today…
Greetings,
My name is Marc Ronson, and I represent Adin Antique Jewellery. I would like to present a job offer as one of our finance processors. The part-time job incomes are 10% from the payment you receive depending on your activity in processing the tasks.
For example, for a payment in amount of 1000 USD you receive, your income will be 100 USD. Your incomes will be deduced from the amount of the payment received and the number of payments you can process on a weekly/daily basis.
Note that the payments will be sent to you by our customers and they can vary depending on the products they order from our company.
This job requires little of your free time, so if you are already employed it’s not an inconvenient.
Your tasks can be resumed as this:
1. Receive the payments via bank transfers;
2. Keep 10% from the payment you receive as your income;
3. Send the rest of the payment to one of our agencies in Europe.If you are interested click the following link and complete the application form.
Click here to access the enrollment form
You will be contacted by one of our human resource managers within 24 hours.
Hope to collaborate with you soon,
Marc Ronson,
IT Executive Manager,
Adin Fine Antique Jewellery.
The link takes you to a well designed site but no matter how much time this IT Executive Manager put into the development, the scheme is the same. Deposit funds that will not clear, have you send them your own legitimate money, and then when the bank tells you that the original deposit didn’t go through your out the money you sent them originally.
The site doesn’t even register to Marc, it registers to someone in China. At least it wasn’t nigeria.
qian jun
jun qian
+86.2122584512 fax: +86.2122584512
Zha Bei District,Da Dong road
Shang hai Shanghai 200085
cn
The old bait and switch
011 months ago
by john
in el telemarketer-o
So I get this email today,
The formatting looks good, the from looks odd but nothing to suspicious. I’ve never gotten a notification from twitter like this before but it is going to the church address and I do maintain the church twitter account. I mouse over the link and find that it’s really going to http://desguacesvilabella.com/andean.html
At first I thought perhaps they want me to give them my account information but in the end it just ended up being an add for viagra.
The moral of the story: don’t just click on any link that “looks” official. Go to the site directly and log in from there.
Buy our Adobe Reader
21 year ago
A colleague of mine found this in her inbox,
From: Adobe [mailto:newsletter@adobe-pdf-2011-upgrade.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 8:43 PM
Subject: New Adobe Acrobat Reader 2011, Upgrade Available NowADOBE ACROBAT READER 2011 UPDATE NOTIFICATION
This is to remind that a new version of Adobe Acrobat Reader 2011 with enhanced features for viewing, creating, editing, printing and internet-sharing PDF documents has been released.To check and download the latest version , go to :
http://www.adobe-pdf-2011-upgrade.com
Start downloading the update right now and let us know what you think about it.
We’re working on making Adobe Acrobat Reader better all the time !
Thanks and best regards,
Adobe Support
© 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.
Adobe Systems Incorporated | 343 Preston Street | Ottawa | ON | K1S 1N4 | Canada |
It claims to be from adobe, although the domain is odd. Even has their Canada corporate office address on it. surely it must be real? With all the adobe updates going around, I better update mine. How nice of them to email me and remind me. If you click on the site, then you get this page, an alias for http://pdfprodownload.com/
and of course after you give them your email address to download, you must pay them for their software.
at least their processing page is secure..
It looks like we have Shawn S. to thank for this “deal” who he himself appears to have had his credit card scammed.
Registrant ID: AVNEP9R-RU
Registrant Name: ANO “Regional Network Information Center”
Registrant Organization: JSC “Regional Network Information Center”
Registrant Street1: pl. akad. Kurchatova, 1
Registrant City: Moscow
Registrant Postal Code: 123182
Registrant Country: RUAdministrative, Technical Contact
Contact ID: AVNEP9R-RU
Contact Name: ANO “Regional Network Information Center”
Contact Organization: JSC “Regional Network Information Center”
Contact Street1: pl. akad. Kurchatova, 1
Contact City: Moscow
Contact Postal Code: 123182
Contact Country: RU
Contact Phone: +7 495 737 0601
Contact Fax: +7 495 737 0602
Contact E-mail:
The moral of the story, if your looking for software, get it from the official source. Adobe.com for example. If your software needs updates, go to the manufactures site or use the software’s auto update feature.
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