A new scam?

2004-04-03 Thread Severin Crisp
Today I had spam email looking like Westpac, National Bank, Netbank and ANZ each notifying me of transfers of large amounts out of my account. A URL was given to respond if I wished. I guess they were trading on shock response so that I would "login" with my details. Needless to say I did n

Re: A new scam?

2004-04-03 Thread John Taylor
On 3 Apr 2004, at 4:03 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: Today I had spam email looking like Westpac, National Bank, Netbank and ANZ each notifying me of transfers of large amounts out of my account. A URL was given to respond if I wished. I guess they were trading on shock response so that I would

Re: A new scam?

2004-04-03 Thread Craig Ringer
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 17:45, John Taylor wrote: > Incidentally, if I am curious enough to want to see it, I only > openspan mail after disconnecting from the server. I vaguely remember > amessage on this list saying that just opening a message can send > areturn message to the sender confirming th

Re: Is this a new scam?

2013-02-15 Thread Rick Armstrong
Hi Ken, I have received some other ones which I reported to PayPal and they have responded to me saying yes it is a scam and they are looking into it, but this look legit but may not have been (I perhaps shouldn't have clicked on the link inviting disaster) Check all the links and see if they a

Re: Is this a new scam?

2013-02-15 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ken and Rick I also receive such emails fairly regularly, almost word for word - and I do have a credit balance: the $2 "nominal" transfer when they activated my unlinked Visa card. My last email from PayPal did NOT include a link to my account. However my email preferences are NOT to down