8-29-06: Beware of Wachovia banking phishing scam

[dmcowen674]

8-29-2006 Beware of Wachovia banking scam folks.

I have never had Wachovia account.


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[SVT Cobra]

It surprises me people fall for this stuff. I get 5 paypal scams a day, each different and more creative, but without even opening them I know they'[re scams.

 

[shabby]

Did they get your name right?

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: shabby
Did they get your name right?

They sure did, not like it's hard with over 18,000 search engine hits on my name.

 

[BoomerD]

I get all kinds of that crap, usually for banks I've never done business with, and some I've never heard of...I usually just forward them to their "phishing" link and delete them. I always hope that the bank will do something, and MAYBE catch/prosecute the bstards...

 

[shabby]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: shabby
Did they get your name right?

They sure did, not like it's hard with over 18,000 search engine hits on my name.

Well i guess with your page in your sig its not hard at all heh.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
It surprises me people fall for this stuff. I get 5 paypal scams a day, each different and more creative, but without even opening them I know they'[re scams.

I'd recommend forwarding them to spoof@paypal.com, although I did have one scammer who seemingly figured out that I turned them in and then used my GMail address as the "To" field in his next batch of spam. Oddly enough, I didn't get any complaints from actual people, but I did end up with about 80 "Postmaster: This mail could not be delivered" messages in my Spam folder.