If they get to the right people, phishing reports will usually
generate some response, at least from the major online services -
financial institutions are less good about it, which I suspect stems
from them not really wanting to admit that this might possibly be a
problem for them. I've had the best luck with forwarding scam emails
to abuse@(whatever service is being victimized), although eBay and
Paypal want theirs sent to [email protected] / [email protected]. In all
cases, make sure you send along the full headers (you add that by
selecting View/Message/Long Headers in Mail) as you forward it so
they can see the IP trail.
The responses will almost always be automated, and very rarely will
you receive anything additional later. If you really want to make the
phisher's day, send an abuse report to the webhost where the phishing
site is located (you can find that out by doing a mouseover to the
link the phisher wants you to click on - it'll be the first domain
that shows up in the URL) or to the host of the email link in the
body of the message that the scammer wants you to reply to. Don't
complain to the "sender" of the email because unless the scammer's
made an egregious mistake, that's been faked.
One web hosting company in particular, christianwebhost.com, has been
particularly vulnerable to scammers placing phishing pages on their
hosted sites because they've had an ugly backdoor in their web server
somewhere that somebody's been exploiting heavily, but that seems to
have abated finally.
On Sep 9, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Marta Edie wrote:
Why do people never reply? I mean when you use their service and
something is wrong, they ought to at least acknowledge your writing
and let you know one way or another. But then it is also our doing
that we let it slide. But they should be shaken up in any case.
I know i am from the old school, ----- but then --- if we don't do
something about these and similar things, then - God bless!
Thank you notes, acknowledgments of any kind seem to be out of
fashion. I have had interesting responses to my not so kind
inquiries - even free services for a while or free gifts to make
up . You know, they all then tell you that they are not a company
that does these things, it was a slip up and , and and other
excuses. They can send you all this advertising material, so --
they should answer.
I just had a thing happen with the Courier Journal, they did not
call back after promising they would. I called the head of the
paper about this lax attitude. Well, now i am on several weeks free
paper delivery.
Marta
On Sep 9, 2009, at 08:47 AM, Chris Mucklow wrote:
I got the same email from yahoo and did not reply. I tried
emailing yahoo about it but never heard back.
--- On Tue, 9/8/09, Wayne Bonnett <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Wayne Bonnett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Is this phishing, or real
To: "Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers"
<[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 10:23 PM
Call insight. I'm 99.99 percent sure that this is a scam.
-- Sent from my Washer and Dryer
Suzanne Blake wrote:
Dear Ones,
This looks as if it's from Insight, but I sent it
to their spam address. I've heard nothing back,
and it has come for the second time. I can't find
anything about it on their website, and it still
smacks of phishing. Furthermore, the return
address in the (whole) header seemed very
convoluted. Why would Insight send me something
via half a dozen other computers?
Somebody tell me to either answer this or just
kill it off. I'd like some reassurance one way or
the other.
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is still active by providing the information below:
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*Password:
*Date Of Birth:
Failure to do this might make access to your
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during this maintenance period.We apologise for
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