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If you get an e-mail telling you that you've won a free game, delete it. This is what I just got in the mail. Almost fell for it because they duplicated the company's web site to the letter.

POINT OF ATTACK 2
The most comprehensive and detailed modern combat simulator ever created.
POA2 is a modern tactical level simulation that depicts combat at the platoon and individual vehicle level. By Scott Hamilton.

First top 50 customers get FREE and you are one of them

The most comprehensive and detailed modern combat simulator ever created.
POA2 is a modern tactical level simulation that depicts combat at the platoon and individual vehicle level. By Scott Hamilton.
First top 50 customers get FREE and you are one of them

They gave me a number and a link. When I used the link, it took to to a Web site that looked like the real thing. I was entering information into the form but stopped when they asked for my ATM PIN #. Next I used my favorites to go to the the real site and they have a BIG warning posted not to fall for the scam.

f**king bastards. they should all die.

f**king bastards. they should all die.

I second that! Let's burn them all!!

Oh, wait... not talking about Corporate executives... well, about the scam... yeah, let's burn them too!!!!! [:)]

ORIGINAL: irrelevant

f**king bastards. they should all die.

They all will someday, I promise ......[8D]

ORIGINAL: Kid

...they duplicated the company's web site to the letter...

And that is sooooo easy to do. I used to sell Network Security, I've seen it and sold on the fear factor.


Here was the biggest tip off for me:

"First top 50 customers get FREE and you are one of them"

Bad Grammar is the #1 tip-off for a scam.

paypal scams are some of the good ones, once saw one that had all of the links actually go to the correct part on the paypal site and this from an email address that displayed as @paypal. You had to look at the actual header to see it wasn't and view the link as it actually was to see it went to someplace in Rommania instead. Other tell tales were the generic address "Dear Customer", people you do business with like paypal will use your name in emails that request you confirm your credit card information and display the url as http://ourplace/blah/blahblah/ instead of clickable link "paypal" or "this link".

These people are true evil doers.

Screw the B**tards

Here is another one I got a few days ago. Again note the bad gramer "nearest time"

I got the CitiBank one a few months ago and reported it to the real citibank. Doesn't look like they've done much about it.

I'm no network specialist, but I thought that when you buy a domain like "citibank.com", then you would have control over the DNS entries on that domain (like a.citibank.com, xyz.citibank.com, gugu.gaga.citibank.com, etc...).

Therefore, how come someone managed to register a name like web.da-us.citibank.com?

I'm mighty curious about that. Perhaps they managed to steal web.da-us.citibank.com, set their own IP address, and now live of it being replicated around DNS servers on the net?

Mighty curious...

F.

Let's get pissed and go get 'em![:D]

ORIGINAL: fbastos

I'm no network specialist, but I thought that when you buy a domain like "citibank.com", then you would have control over the DNS entries on that domain (like a.citibank.com, xyz.citibank.com, gugu.gaga.citibank.com, etc...).

Therefore, how come someone managed to register a name like web.da-us.citibank.com?

I'm mighty curious about that. Perhaps they managed to steal web.da-us.citibank.com, set their own IP address, and now live of it being replicated around DNS servers on the net?

Mighty curious...

F.

The displayed address on a web-page or in an html-formatted email isn't necessarily the same as the link address.

web.da-us.citibank.com

The link probably doesn't actually go to that URL.

You'd think Hackers would finally realize that not everyone on the net is a complete idiot.... oh well, maybe someday.

The displayed address on a web-page or in an html-formatted email isn't necessarily the same as the link address

Ah, good point... these guys are doing a really dumb scheme. Thought they had some sophisticated exploit. Just a bunch of morons passing misleading links around.

F.

There is still enough idiots out there to make it worth their time, expense, and risk. However it should be noted that they are getting more sophisticated in their scams. They are able to get their sites to look almost actually like the real ones.

You'd think Hackers would finally realize that not everyone on the net is a complete idiot.... oh well, maybe someday

Hehehe... don't count me out of the idiots list yet. I typed in web.da-us.citibank.com, and as a page loaded and the links on the page worked I thought "geez, these guys page look very similar to the Citibank one... they are good".

I didn't realize I was on the real Citibank page.. [:)]

F.

Go here and check how they do it. You can't even tell by looking at the address bar:

http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/ ... tibank.htm

there's a real easy foolproof way to ID the real mccoy vs the hacker sites.

I'll share my inside knowledge to the first 50 people who PM me their ATM pin #'s......

ACT NOW!