Comments on: Phishing warning

By: Sande

Sande — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:27:47 +0000

At home, I’ve received numerous e-mails from someone or some place in Africa telling me that I’d won $2,000,000. All I had to do was provide them with was a lot of my personal information. The e-mail’s always sent by a different person. Then what they wanted me to believe is that the check was coming by FedEx and that I had to provide them (FedEx)with all my personal info before it could be delivered. I don’t even open these anymore. They go to the trash can just as soon as I can. However, at first I wasn’t paying attention until I got into reading the body of the e-mail and figured out what a scam it was. I wonder if anyone else has been receiving these e-mails.

By: Michael Reeser

Michael Reeser — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:54:49 +0000

received just the e-mail you wrote about. I was kind of suprised it didn’t get picked up in the graymail filter as it wa in my inbox Monday. No – I didn’t and don’t ever respond to these SA requests.

Thanks

By: John Kerr

John Kerr — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:15:56 +0000

Yes, our Street Fighter foo is strong!

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:37:30 +0000

Whenever I see a return address or name I do not recognize, I delete it immediately, without opening. I’ve noticed that when I roll my cursor over the e-mails in my inbox, the first few lines of the message are shown. I hope this does not mean that the message is opened, or that any viruses, phishes, Trojan Horses, or anything else is “gifted” to me. I’m very careful about the e-mails I open. If it happens that I delete something I shouldn’t have, well, if it’s important, someone will send it again. If not, I don’t think I wanted to see it anyway.

By: Don W.

Don W. — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:47:44 +0000

As Dane said I’ve actually sent a couple that got through back with headers. Funny, they never showed up after that. Thanks Sonic!

By: tony

tony — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:30:56 +0000

Turn these scumbags in. I use spamcop.net. Do not click on anything in the body of the message. Practice safe computing.

By: Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:47:44 +0000

I work as an IT consultant at a CSU, and we see this a lot, too.

When a crowd this big gets phished, and a few respond, a gazillion spams are immediately sent from the compromised account in our domain, an .edu address.

That can cause hotmail, msn, and other service providers to blacklist the entire campus domain for several days. Let’s keep those passwords to ourselves.

Never send your password by email. Those are your credentials. The “I forgot my password” button on websites too often emails a password to you, or to someone with your password.

And keep up the good work, sonic. Your response is thoughtful and well written.

-Chris
(Happy with Sonic.net since 1995)

By: Dane Jasper

Dane Jasper — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:03:55 +0000

Yup, Terry, if you see any, forward to support@sonic.net and they’ll blackhole the reply-to address. If you can forward with full headers, that helps a lot. Thanks!

-Dane

By: Terry Sneller

Terry Sneller — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:59:05 +0000

Should we Forward these emails to you (Sonic)?

By: Tim Preston

Tim Preston — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:03:15 +0000

This is an ongoing issue that is starting hit home for Sonic users.

It is very important that users do not open their information to anyone over the internet without having some understanding of security steps and procedures used to protect that information.

Also, if anyone has heard about or has information leading to the location of phishing implementers, send that information to the FTC.

Maybe Sonic can also get that information so we can enjoy a StreetFighter smackdown of justice.