Phishing Season is upon us - Watch for those Spoof e-mails

Fred,   Good info.  That is pretty tricky.

Just can't trust anybody these days.

Fred

great blog post - the bad guys are getting smarter and more clever.  thanks for helping the good guys stay up on it as well!

chris the implemtner

Jim - You got that right, tricky is really the right word. I don't know how they can hijack a website like that, but they sure do.

Chris - I will do my best. Interestingly, Marti just posted a phishing post on his blog too, but about twitter. It must be that time of year. Phishing Season.

Fred, thanks, I am not falling for the crap! there is so much spamming, etc going on with the internet that you have to watch everything you do. Twiiter has been battling spam for passwords and log-ins. All I say is thanks and be careful.

Bo

Crap! You caught me Fred!!! I was hoping to make some extra dough off this fake site!!! Thanks for telling EVERYONE!! Hahaha!

Bo - They are always out there lurking.

Cecily - Are you a lurker? LOL.

The really awful thing is you can't set up rules to delete those messages because otherwise you'd be deleting every email you ever send to yourself. I hate these things. I try to do it from subject or message body, but still, I expect a lot of my emails go into the delete folder that shouldn't. It's better than irritating me every day, though. :)

Great heads up!  There is some crazy stuff going on and wee need to be aware of the latest scams so we can protect ourselves, and hopefully stop the perps.

I hadn't thought of advising the existing bank . . . that is a great idea that I'll do next time - Thanks Fred (aren't you always thinking!).

Hi Fred, We are seeing more and more of these turning up all the time. Very scary - I have received several of them also. And they do look very official - but the info they are asking for is bogus.  Thanks for the alert and always keeping us on our toes!

Have quite the problem at Twitter re: this... in fact there's a note that says, "don't login to FAKE Twitter site!"  Apparently there are viruses going around!

Eleanor - Often times the rules for these type of e-mails only work for a short time anyway. They are always updating the attempts.

Pam - Reporting the attempts to the banks helps stop them and get them caught.

Margaret - Thanks, always trying to make things safer.

Sandy - Just report all of them that you can. I know it takes a little longer, but it is worth it.

Eleanor - Yes Twitter is having a major attack right now. The link in my response above to Marti should help people that are not aware of it.

Thanks for the great info Fred. I have received some of these in the past and I always mark them as Spam.

Sean - They are really tricky at times. Just report them if you can, that helps.

Hi Fred - Thanks for the information.  I, like most others, just delete those emails or send them to spam.  I never though about sending them on to the "spoofed" company.  I'll try that the next time I get one.

You are welcome Jon. Anything we can do to catch these monkeys.