Re: Bank scam

[Bill Parker]

Quite often you can hover the cursor over the false URL and see that these 
things are spam.

Bill
On 14/10/2012, at 9:49 AM, Merv Bond wrote:

> The message below received this morning and deleted.
> Appears to be another scam.
> Merv
> 
> 
> SSuubbjjeecctt:: First NetBank Third Party Payment.
> FFrroom:: "Commonwealth Bank" 
> Dear Customer,
> Your first transfer to the following third party account(s) has been 
> successfully processed:
>> From Account:   7712 Complete Access
> To Account(s): weekly debt 990-000 *8701 $495.00 10 woodnote st
> Date: 13/10/2012
> view details of this transaction here: 2719 Complete Access.
> Yours sincerely,
> Commonwealth Bank of Australia
> Please do not reply. To confirm this is a genuine email sent by the 
> Bank, please check
> your inbox on the NetBank home page.
> Message: 1002816531
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Re: Bank scam

[Ronni Brown]

I received this email SCAM on Thursday Merv, it was a bit slow getting to you  
:-))



Cheers,
Ronni

On 14/10/2012, at 9:49 AM, Merv Bond  wrote:

> The message below received this morning and deleted.
> Appears to be another scam.
> Merv
> 
> 
> SSuubbjjeecctt:: First NetBank Third Party Payment.
> FFrroom:: "Commonwealth Bank" 

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Bank scam

[Merv Bond]

The message below received this morning and deleted.
Appears to be another scam.
Merv


SSuubbjjeecctt:: First NetBank Third Party Payment.
FFrroom:: "Commonwealth Bank" 
Dear Customer,
Your first transfer to the following third party account(s) has been 
successfully processed:
 >From Account:   7712 Complete Access
To Account(s): weekly debt 990-000 *8701 $495.00 10 woodnote st
Date: 13/10/2012
view details of this transaction here: 2719 Complete Access.
Yours sincerely,
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Please do not reply. To confirm this is a genuine email sent by the 
Bank, please check
your inbox on the NetBank home page.
Message: 1002816531
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confrontation with space-time. (Teilhard de Chardin, 'The Phenomenon of 
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Why is HTML email *bad* (Was: Re: Bank scam!!!!)

[Onno Benschop]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 01:51, Denise Williams wrote:
> why is it best to not use HTML email?? I don't quite understand what happens
> when I click to have HTML on or off. TIA

There is nothing inherently bad about HTML email per se, but the problem
is that once you start with it, all manner of other things start to
happen.

Firstly, HTML allows you to link to external objects, which then allow a
spammer to track which emails were actually viewed and when.

Then, because you're encoding all kinds of other stuff inside a HTML
page, a simple message can take up five or more times the space an
equivalent text-only message takes.

Mail programmes sometimes use their own method of displaying HTML -
Eudora for example - which is not always the same as a web-browser would
display it.

HTML allows for JavaScript, so if a sender is allowed to send HTML
email, they need to also allow for JavaScript, which opens up a whole
can of worms in terms of malicious behaviour.

On a more esoteric path, if you allow active content in an email
message, you open yourself up to other active content which can then
facilitate email virus propagation.

The main reason stated for sending HTML email is "But I want to make my
email look pretty/corporate/formatted/designed." - Having just read the
preceding paragraphs, you can understand that this does not actually
succeed, because HTML is not meant - nor was it ever - to actually
accomplish this.

So, how do you then achieve the stated reasons?

Send an attachment.

Let me say that again.

If you want to send pretty email, send an attachment.

Of course if you want to be bandwidth friendly - given that recipients
pay for receiving email - more bytes = more dollars - you'd be an even
better email citizen if you sent attachments only if requested by the
recipient and sent URLs to the information in *all* other cases.

But then, some people don't have access to a web-server to put content
on, so people can actually get the attachment via the web. (Although 99%
of Internet accounts in Australia do in fact come with more or less
web-space.)

So, hope this helps,


Onno Benschop 

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Re: Bank scam!!!!

[Denise Williams]

on 22/7/03 5:47 PM, Shay Telfer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> Sorry, my Freudian(?) slip, drawn to my attention by Westnet. In
>> fact the URL in the email was wespac.com./index which is a
>> non-Australian address
>> Severin Crisp
> 
> Are you sure you didn't mean westpac.com? Note the t in Westpac.
> Strangely it looks like a legitimate business site, it's possible
> there was a different URL disguised into the original message they
> sent you. Another good reason not to use HTML e-mail :)
> 
> Have fun,
> Shay
Just thought I'd ask this question, after reading Shay's above reply, but
why is it best to not use HTML email?? I don't quite understand what happens
when I click to have HTML on or off. TIA

Denise Williams-Photographer
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Mob 0417 184592 

Re: Bank scam!!!!

[Shay Telfer]

Sorry, my Freudian(?) slip, drawn to my attention by Westnet. In
fact the URL in the email was wespac.com./index which is a
non-Australian address
Severin Crisp


Are you sure you didn't mean westpac.com? Note the t in Westpac. 
Strangely it looks like a legitimate business site, it's possible 
there was a different URL disguised into the original message they 
sent you. Another good reason not to use HTML e-mail :)


Have fun,
Shay
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Re: Bank scam!!!!

[Severin Crisp]

Sorry, my Freudian(?) slip, drawn to my attention by Westnet. In 
fact the URL in the email was wespac.com./index which is a 
non-Australian address

Severin Crisp



Hi Severin,

Thanks

I don't use Westpac except on very odd occasions
but I thought I might just look at your SCAM page.

Interestingly I cannot get to it from here at this time.

wespac.com.au/index shows as no such page,
wespac.com.au gives a Bin Handling company in South Australia

and westpac with the T westpac.com.au seems to go to the Westpac
Banking home site.


On th odd occasions I do go to Westpac I go to URL below
which seems tp be the right location at the moment.
We have no money in that account anyway.

https://olb.westpac.com.au/default.asp


Bob





Severin Crisp wrote:
This afternoon, I received an email purportedly from my bank, 
Wespac, informing me of new security arrangements and urging me to 
login to the given URL and reenter my details. Given rumours 
circulating on scams like this the warning bells sounded, in 
addition, the URL, wespac.com.au/index... included /index which 
is not in the normal logon URL. A check with Wespac revealed that 
this is indeed a scam email BE WARNED
A login to that URL in fact takes you to an exact copy of the 
Wespac welcome page but once your login details are entered your 
money has gone!!

All take note, my guess is that all banks are being targeted
Severin Crisp



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Bank scam!!!!

[Severin Crisp]

This afternoon, I received an email purportedly from my bank, Wespac, 
informing me of new security arrangements and urging me to login to 
the given URL and reenter my details. Given rumours circulating on 
scams like this the warning bells sounded, in addition, the URL, 
wespac.com.au/index... included /index which is not in the normal 
logon URL. A check with Wespac revealed that this is indeed a scam 
email BE WARNED
A login to that URL in fact takes you to an exact copy of the Wespac 
welcome page but once your login details are entered your money has 
gone!!
All take note, my guess is that all banks are being targeted
Severin Crisp
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Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP

15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
Fax (08) 9842 9650 (Int'l +61 8 9842 9650) 
email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Web pages http://www.albanyis.com.au/~sev/
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