Beware: Fake Website - Page 2

tommy · 03-17-2007

We should always try to log into our account through our browsers.
Type the link yourself and avoid following links found in mails.
I hate scams...

reachkannan2003 · 03-17-2007

hi guys,
here is the true story...
The police are warning of a new online banking scam targeting New Zealanders and Australians. The scam uses two websites, each claiming to represent a financial services firm that has partnerships with banks, including ANZ, Westpac, ASB Bank, National Bank of New Zealand and the Bank of New Zealand. The banks deny any association with the company and investigations by the police's e-Crime unit in New Zealand showed that the scam was being run from Denmark.

The website devancy.com: The Leading Genealogy Site on the Net, is aimed at New Zealanders, while search is tailored to Australians. Visitors to the websites are asked to accept a $10,000 deposit into their bank account before being told to forward the amount on to a third party, minus a $500 transaction fee earned for forwarding the money.

Shady · 03-20-2007

Its amazing the amount of effort these thieves will go to in order to fool you out of your money. With the amount of time and effort that goes into creating these "Spoof" websites the thieves could have probabaly created there own profitable and orignal website lol

chandni_aqua · 03-21-2007

This is so bad... I mean sites like Paypal or other money paying sites should never be copied

**frank** · 03-21-2007

guys these frauds keep coming until we have online transaction.. we can't stop them..

So, I advise people to ignore emails they get from places like eBay or their bank. If you think its a real message, open your browser and type in the URL of the place that emailed you manually, then check your 'message center' on that site to see if they really did contact you.

Jerlene · 03-21-2007

OP, could you provide a link?

scamout · 03-21-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike

Hi,
Recently I was hit with many emails on some email address which I need added for eBay or Paypal accounts. The email contained an complete clone of eBay with a fake url to login. I knew it was fake but I thought of having a look on the sites.

.. The fake site looked completely like the original site without https:// remember to check the mails carefully and look over the security certificate too.

A good tip off would be the fact that the address of "paypal-paymant" is spelled wrong. Then too, the originating IP is in Canada.

The link is now dead.

PayPal phishing emails should be reported to spoof@paypal.com. You'd be surprised at how fast they can shut down the phishing site!

All phishing emails can be sent to reportphishing@antiphishing.org

Expand the headers and FORWARD the email to both addresses.

scamout · 03-21-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shady

Its amazing the amount of effort these thieves will go to in order to fool you out of your money. With the amount of time and effort that goes into creating these "Spoof" websites the thieves could have probabaly created there own profitable and orignal website lol

Are you kidding? There's free software out there that will pull down the code for an entire site in a matter of minutes. Duplicating a couple of pages is trivial. All they need to do is change the single line of code that points to the CGI form handler. The bigger problem they face is sending out the spam to thousands of email addresses.

alex · 03-22-2007

You can also report fraudulent emails to chargebackforum.com

Simply send them to report@chargebackforum.com - please be sure to include the full headers.

You can also submit them on http://www.chargebackforum.com/phishing-alerts-news/

The full headers are important because they allow people monitoring chargebackforum to find the source of the emails.

Dakuipje · 03-22-2007

You should always be careful for these scams.
They can really bring your mail down by selling your email address to large spamming companies. Or even worse record your password to login on your eBay account.