Re: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-07 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 02:39 PM 06/12/2005, Stan Zaske wrote: I just received issue #23 of the Astalavista Security Newsletter. Does anybody else read it and what do you think? @:) Never read it. How do I get a copy? T

Re: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-07 Thread Stan Zaske
Check it out! @:D http://www.astalavista.com/media/archive1/newsletter/issue_23_2005.pdf Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: At 02:39 PM 06/12/2005, Stan Zaske wrote: I just received issue #23 of the Astalavista Security Newsletter. Does anybody else read it and what do you think? @:) Never

Re: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-07 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 02:27 PM 07/12/2005, Stan Zaske wrote: Check it out! @:D http://www.astalavista.com/media/archive1/newsletter/issue_23_2005.pdf Cool, thanks. T

Re: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-06 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Veech wrote: :: I have never responded to these types of requests. Never never give :: personal info on these. A common denominator to all of these :: things, no matter where they come from, is bad grammar or misspelled :: words. Once they figure this out, then we're in trouble. Until ::

Re: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-06 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
IMO, the fact that they are writing you tell you of unauthorized activity and then asking you to follow any link to update your info is the dead giveaway - regardless of spelling and grammar or what's really coded behind a link. If Amazon (or anyone) wants to suspend my account - I'd let them

Re: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-06 Thread Stan Zaske
I agree, my bank never solicits me online only by snailmail. They know better. I never click on any links from any SPAM either and the only reason I leave it unfiltered is that sometimes it excludes the wrong email and I miss stuff being sent to me from legitimate sources like NewEgg. @:)

RE: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-04 Thread Neil Davidson
The fact it is addressed to Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of your actual name is also a bit of a giveaway -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: 03 December 2005 17:13 To: hwg Subject: [H] Possible Phishing Attack?

RE: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-03 Thread Veech
The bad grammar in the first two sentences is a dead giveaway. Fry this phish... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 9:13 AM To: hwg Subject: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments

Re: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-03 Thread Brian Weeden
On 12/3/05, Veech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bad grammar in the first two sentences is a dead giveaway. Fry this phish... What makes me wonder is the link - it is to https://www.amazon.com which unless I am missing something is the correct site. Could there be some sort of proxy or DNS

Re: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-03 Thread Winterlight
I have been getting these, and a similar Paypal one, on a daily bases, on one of my work accounts for at least six months. At 12:52 PM 12/3/2005, you wrote: On 12/3/05, Veech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bad grammar in the first two sentences is a dead giveaway. Fry this phish... What

RE: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-03 Thread Chris Reeves
Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 2:53 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue On 12

RE: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-03 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:03 PM 12/3/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Well, that's the link as to what it -looks- like. But the a href is not always the same as the linked text.. A common phish. You're using Gmail therefore the email message is in html which makes it easy to hide the real link in the a href=.. You

Re: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-03 Thread Bill Cohane
At 16:21 12/03/05, Steve Tomporowski wrote: I got the same thing the other day. The key is to type in the wrong password and see if it lets you in. If it does, then it's phsihing I also get these almost every day. I've checked view source for many of them and I've seen some where the