[GreenKeys] Re: Phishing

[Robert McConnell]

Hi Web,

These are well known scams and do not come from Citibank, AOL, or whomever 
else they purport to be from. No responsible creditor would ever use the 
web to verify anything. If you look at the page source, you will find the 
actual links look nothing like what was displayed and point to bogus pages 
set up to capture the credit card information of anyone gullible enough to 
actually believe the message. Once they have your information, they can 
access your account and do pretty much whatever they like, including spend 
all of your money or steal your identity.

Reporting them does no good either, as they all have faked addresses and 
have been posted through proxy email servers or from hijacked MS-Windows 
computers.

Simply throw them in the trash. If you get enough that look alike, you 
might even set up a filter rule to automatically delete them.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP

At 1/10/04 10:48 AM, Web Williams wrote:
>I've been getting a bunch of these- and no sooner had I read this one
>than I received ANOTHER one! Check out the gross mis-spellings.
>Must be a 2nd grader trying to pull this one off!!! There was a link
>to click on, but I won't waste anyone's time.
>
>73, -Web
>
>ATTACHMENT BELOW
>
>Dear Citi-Card Cleint,
>
>This letter was ssent by the Citicards serevr to veerify your e-mail
>adderss. You must cmtploee this pocress by clicking on the link
>below and enntering in the little window your Citbiank ATM
>Card number and CARD PIN that you use on ATM Machine.
>That is done for your ptoecrtion -g- becouse some of our memebrs no
>lgoner have acescs to their email adedsress and we must verify it.