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Thursday, October 13, 2005

a classic password phishing

here is a spam mail that I got today ......

Dear Amazon member,

We regret to inform you that your Amazon account was been suspended for a period of 3-4 days,after that it will be terminated.
During our regularly schedule account maintenance and verification we have detected a slight error in your billing information on file with Amazon.
This might be due to either following reasons:

- A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address)
- Submitting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
- An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due to an internal error within processors.

Your credit card on file with Amazon
Card number: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX (Not shown for security purposes)
Expiration date: XX/XX
Please sign in to your Amazon account and update your billing information:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/css/homepage.html

If your account information is not up-to-date, your account on Amazon will be terminated.


Thank you for your time!
AmazonĀ® Security Departament


If you buy this and click on the link that is provided, u'd be taken to a site which looks exactly like the original amazon.com sign in page (here it won't work as I just pasted the text). careful ones would notice a different address in the address field but most don't.

remember, don't even click on the links sent in an email. instead check it up urself.

9 Comments:

Blogger Me said...

after ur post on how ur friend got cheated on the laptop deal i have been saying it to all my friends about this kind of scam....

8:14 PM  
Blogger Ram C said...

kaathukittu irukannunga.. eppadiyellam SPAM mail anupalammnu!!!!

I don't touch these sort of mails.. just by looking into the subject, I delete them... accidentally I might have opened some.

8:30 PM  
Blogger Narayanan Venkitu said...

I am getting very scared these days, I get a few emails like this now and then. OF late from EBay or some fake website..which sends fake mails..!!

I don't even open it.!! Like you just said.!!

11:46 PM  
Blogger Chakra said...

ellam thalai ezhuththu... just yesterday i was telling my colleagues here abt the laptop-ebay story of your friend..

1:01 AM  
Blogger capriciously_me said...

hehe...i got an email like this from paypal...& i did not even have an account with them!!

11:13 AM  
Blogger ada-paavi!!!! said...

i never shop online so no porblems

6:23 PM  
Blogger tt_giant said...

one of my colleagues also got a similar email. but luckily he did not get fooled.

scary!.

3:11 PM  
Blogger ioiio said...

yemaaarara makku makkals irukkara yemaathara manasaatchi illaadha makkal irukka dhaan seivaanga

9:49 PM  
Blogger Nth Dimension said...

These emails are..well..elementary. More serious phishing attacks are being discovered or atleast being potentially talked about. I read somewhere that the next "big" attack would be to take over the name-servers on the Internet routers. Then, the router will do the task of re-routing you to the wrong website, with us being completely unaware.

9:10 PM  

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