Triumphrat

Tbirdnz

Todays Sydney Morning Herald warns Aussies that not enough know about Phishing and that they are susceptible to being 'caught'.

I think that same advice would apply to most countries, phishing is getting more and more sophisticated and are catching even experienced users in passing personal financial details over the internet or 'phone.

Anyone have any personal experiences in such attacks ?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/aussi...091252153.html


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welshrob

This e-mail arrived 5 minutes ago....

BRITISH LOTTERY6/49
P O Box 1010, 3b Olympic Way,
Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool ,
L30 1RD


FINAL NOTIFICATION

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of £1,263,584.00(British Pounds) held on the 28th of September 2007 in London Uk.The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection system(ess) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from which you were selected.

The BRITISH. NATIONAL LOTTERY is approved by the British Gaming Board.To begin the processing of your prize you are to contact our fiduaciary claims department for more infomation as regards procedures to claim your prize.

You are to contact the Claims Consultant:
Mr.Richard Williams
Tel:+447045721858
Email:richard_williamsdept@hotmail.co.uk
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contact him, please provide him with the following codes below:
FOLLOWING:Ticket no:025-1146-1992-750,
Serial no:2113-05,
Lucky no:08-11-17-30-32-41
bonus no:47,
REFNO:BRLFGP2551256/0.
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PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM
(1) FULL NAME:
(2) FULL ADDRESS:
(3) NATIONALITY:
(4) AGE:
(5) OCCUPATION:
(6 )TELEPHONE NUMBER:
(7) SEX:
(8) TOTAL AMOUNT WON:
(9) COUNTRY:

If you do not contact your claims agent within 3 working days of this Notification, your winnings would be revoked. Winners are advised to keep their winning details/information from the public to avoid Fraudulent claim (IMPORTANT) pending the prize claim by Winner.

*Winner under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified. *Staff of the British Lottery are not to partake in this Lottery.

Congratulation!!

Sincerely,
Stella Roberts (Mrs)

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LoVel

I don't respond to offers from people I have not already contacted and I surely would not respond to an offer for free money. What a load.

Wombat

Rob,
I must have gotten a dozen of those emails lately.

I think it is funny that the Claims Consultant has a hotmail email address.

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Bob

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Age is of no importance, unless you are a cheese.

Tbirdnz

They're obviously trying to build a directory of well known nuts, I've yet to receive one !


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tba-golfer

Don't phall phor the phishers, or your phinances will phail.

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Weasel Pete

****! How many people am I gonna have to split my winnings with?
I got the same one a few weeeks ago.

Hoffo

Welshrob,
I get at least one of these every day on my Emails, from what I can ascertain the Diction & Grammer of these little gems makes me think that a "4th. Grader" has composed & written this garbage. The real purpose of these Emails, I believe is to try to steal a persons identity.
The Emails I get a laugh at are the ones from Nigeria & Ghana proposing to give a person millions of Stolen / Lost dollars in return for smuggling said amount into your country - the sad thing is though, there are people who get sucked into these blatently obvious cons by 1/2 educated dipsticks.
Hoffo

welshrob

Are you trying to say...

THAT I HAVEN`T REALLY WON THE LOTTERY????

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Lee

I have received those and one from a poorly done IRS reimbursement notification, all you need to do is supply the necessary information and you can get your $268.00 that is yours.

Some people just do not want to work they would rather steal.

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