danger, phishing scheme

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Topic: danger, phishing scheme

Posted By: haemphyst
Subject: danger, phishing scheme
Date Posted: October 24, 2007 at 5:59 PM

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?

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Can we please make this a temporary sticky? I think it's important that people know of the dangers that can be found online...

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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."

Replies:

Posted By: jmelton86
Date Posted: October 24, 2007 at 6:51 PM

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 By: init
Date Posted: October 28, 2007 at 8:55 PM

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...

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Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: November 14, 2007 at 9:06 PM

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...

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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."