Phishing gone wrong...

[agilebrit]

I wasn't going to post about the first one...until I got the second one. Two in one day, worthy of mockage, is just too good to pass up. Not only are these people morons, but they apparently think I am too.

So, the first one was in my Yahoo mail spambox. I get a lot of these. This gem purported to be from "Credit Union National Association." Understand that I don't have an account in any credit unions whatsoever, so their lame attempt to get my information is going to be fruitless anyway. It was a typical email threatening to "restrict" my account if I didn't click their fake link and input everything they need to steal my identity kthxDIE, but it veered off into Bwahaha-territory with this:

Your credit card on file with CUNA:
Card number: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX (Not shown for security purposes) Expiration date: XX/XX

Um, WHAT? You're going to not show the cc info for security purposes? WHY have that line in there at all, then? And I copied and pasted that verbatim; everything was X-ed out like that. Dumbasses.

The next one was supposedly from eBay. Dudes, I know what a real email from eBay looks like, and this ain't it. Try harder, k? What made this one post-worthy were the following misspellings:

If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend your account.

The first misspelling was bad enough. But the second? So...they have a time machine? They're going to go back or forward in the time-space continuum and restrict my account access? What a neat and shiny toy! Or perhaps they're using some sort of mind control thing where they go through the temporal lobe of my brain and prevent me from accessing the account that way.

Good grief, people. Of course, the fact that some folks actually fall for this crap makes me fear for the future of humanity.

Comments

[zilly14.livejournal.com]

People are stupid... the sad thing is, some people actually believe these emails and end up being victims of this crap (although, if they have spelling errors at all, that's a sign that it's NOT LEGIT!!!!).

One of my friends said she ordered something on Amazon, and I think she changed something like the address after she had ordered it, and then she got an email supposedly from them and she had to reenter her info. They stole her debit card (electronically) and made purchases in another country. She's a smart person but fell into a trap. Companies need to make sure their customers know their policies (such as "we will never ask for your info in an email" which is what my bank does) and people just need to be more informed. It's a scary world.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

They should never ever ask you to click a link, ever. That would be a good start. I got one that actually WAS from my credit card the other day...and it told me to click a link. Um, NO? I know it goes to your website, dudes, because I'm smart enough to look and see where it's taking me before I click it, but it's just dumb to do that. If I need to update my information, I'll do it from the site's homepage, not from some email that came from I-don't-know-where.

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

So right. I delete any e-mail I don't recognize, and I don't do any business by e-mail (except correspondence with companies we know and trust). People are just gullible.