subliminal subotnik

scam and these ugly trick_you_out mails are a verry common thing in the net since years.
they build mails that look like there are send by facebook, google,yahoo, awebber and vice versa like your bank account.

they realy look exactly like they where send by these companys, happyly sometimes they make litle mistakes.

i am active in the net since 1988 or so, do not remember exactly, but i remember that trick_mails have startet in the middle 90s.

if you follow simple rules, there would be NO danger for you at all !

these rules are simple:

– your bank never will send you mails regarding your account data!
– your bank will never send you mails with a link to a login-page!
– ALWAYS , yes ALWASY check the URL the link in a mail is leading to and ALWAYS watch out for litle miss-spellings in the servernames !
– do not use full HTML-preview of the mails in your mailprogram!
– NEVER allow your mailprogramm to load external content like pictures or other attachments!!!

i use thunderbird as my mailproggi and the first thing i do is:
disableling full-HTM view of the mails.

shure some mails look a litle poor then 😉

thunderbird shows you the server a link is leading to in the status-bar at the lower end of the window.
so it is easy to check if the writen link is different to the rael adress the link is leading to!
this in fact is one of the most powerfull features of thunderbird !

if the kink looks strange but i am not sgure if it is realy danger 😉 sometimes it icould be interesting ( and fun!) to visit the link just to see what is behind it.

but, NEVER do tzhis directly with your computer!!!
i use a system witch was vreated to break the chinese wall instead 😉 this server then will surf the adress for you and then just present a screenshot to you of the site ;)funny thing is that the site then will regonise you as a surfer from switzerland .. LOL
pici.picidae.net
that i do becouse even the view of a picture inside your mailproggi or your browser directly could harm your system realy badly, IE had/has the funny feature that it renders javascript inside a JPG file bevor rendering the picture and that activity you mostly never see directly. the script then can do lots of crazy things with your computer then.

pici saves you from that tricks couse it will render the complete site for you and sends the screenshot to your browser then.

take care

subliminal subotnik

Your best bet is to check the links in the email that they want you to click. Most email clients will show you the link if you hover the cursor over it. This is the real link and will start with http:// or https://

The next part is the domain name. Be ware since some will say something like:

legitmate.com.helpful.trickery.com/form-to-get-your-data

Make sure that is has legitmate.com followed by either a / or nothing.

Keep in mind that stuff coming through an autoresponder (such as Aweber) will often have the autoresponder domain. That makes it more difficult to check but they will have a trace.

If your email client doesn’t show you the actual link when you hover over it, use the “view message source” option to see the actual message code. Look for <a href=http:// followed by the domain name.

Interesting story and wise advice.

What’s really interesting is that while they didn’t capitalize the “w” in their email address, but they did have it capitalized at the bottom of their email to you. I wonder how and why they made this mistake…

Jhoe

You said, “Always look at the sender address to the right side of the @ sign”.

That is a GREAT piece of advice. I have started always doing that when I have the slightest question about whether an email is legit or not.

It’s getting pretty crazy………..my son in law got an email “supposedly” from the IRS and unfortunately he did click the link and got a virus from it.

We’ve got to be so careful nowadays………….thanks for sharing this Jennifer!

Get someones account info, login, and blasts all their lists with your offer.

Thanks for the heads up – hope to never see any of those phishing emails for Aweber.

Robert
Co-Founder, match rate plus

In the last month I’ve been tracked by the FBI for visiting illegal web sites (what the heck is an illegal website), I owe thousands to the IRS even though I don’t live there, my bank account (insert bank name here) has been compromised and the password needs to be reset plus my credit cards are all overdue and the password has expired. I also need a fleet of trucks to pick up packages from UPS that were unable to be delivered. The stress of it all must be killing me.

I’m not alone though as some of those emails come with a list of CC’s a mile long. We must all be sharing our bank accounts and credit cards, visiting the same illegal websites and live in the same house that doesn’t get deliveries. You’d think out of all those people living in the same house someone would be home to collect.

At the top of your web page –

Let Me Ask You Something…

If I Could Teach You How To Make a Mini-Site That Makes $300 a Month…

How Many Mini-Sites Would YOU Make?

10? 20? 100? More?

Instructions Are Here

Once you know the “recipe” – the sky is the limit!

do you indorse this product – do you know these guys – do they really make this money – is it a scam as i would like to invest into some thing – but there seems to be a lot so called money making schemes out there ready just to take your money!

Regards

Mick Oakley

In our case, we sell physical products and the scam emails we get are often associated with phony shipping arrangements. These include international “customers” who want their shipping agent to do a local pickup or people who might request Paypal plus a local pickup. For those not in the know: you can’t ever let people who use Paypal do local pickups because Paypal won’t accept your signed invoice as proof of delivery.

Bud Corwin