I got one of these in early January, but I don't use e-gold. Probably they hit everyone they can find an address for on the assumption that some of them use e-gold. Even a small number of accounts could be quite profitable for them. (Perhaps they are more selective, mailing people who post on crypto lists or something).
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, [iso-8859-2] Paweł Krawczyk wrote: > This is what I received today, which seems to be a scam made to steal > e-gold passwords. The resulting e-mail looks exactly like e-gold web page, > but the login data is sent to http://www.parokk.com/db/add_news.php > (65.108.223.108 belonging to Alabanza, scam sent from 24.141.183.234 > belonging to CGOCable). > > After that the user is redirected back to e-gold site, so he could have > his password stolen without even notifying that. Be warned, e-gold has > been informed. > > It's interesting where did they get my email from and how they knew I > used e-gold...
