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haemphyst 
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Posted: October 24, 2007 at 5:59 PM / IP Logged  
There is a new phishing scheme out there kids! It's "from the IRS", and it's one of the best ones I've seen yet! It goes a little something like this:
Refund Notification
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
United States Department of the Treasury
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal
activity we have determined that you are eligible
to receive a tax refund of $134.80.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us
6-9 days in order to process it.
A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying
after the deadline.
To access the form for your tax refund, click here. The "click here" is a link, but I did not include the code ~~haemphyst
Regards,
Internal Revenue Service
Document Reference: (92054568).
You'll click the link, and nothing bad will happen to your PC, (as far as I could tell, there was no malicious code...) but you are then re-directed to a VERY official looking site, asking for your SSN, Credit card number, bank account, and ATM PIN! Some people will actually fill this information out, but I know none of YOU are gonna fall for it now! Right?
::::EDIT::::
Can we please make this a temporary sticky? I think it's important that people know of the dangers that can be found online...
It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
jmelton86 
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Posted: October 24, 2007 at 6:51 PM / IP Logged  

Thanks, dude!

This stuff gets people so often! I got a fake check in the mail the other day! It looked so real.

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Posted: October 28, 2007 at 8:55 PM / IP Logged  

Thanks, that stuff can be tricky.  Though ATM PIN is very suspicious, there is no reason for even the IRS to have that.

Oh, and was the fake check from AT&T?  Cause we have one here that I think is fake, never did get any explanation about why they were sending $5 here...

I'm not a professional installer. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express.
haemphyst 
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Posted: November 14, 2007 at 9:06 PM / IP Logged  
The 5.00 check from AT&T will switch you TO AT&T as your long distance carrier... DON'T cash it! It's a real check, though...
It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

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