E-Mail scam of the day.

[KevinP73]

I'm not a Washington Mutual Account holder but thought it was nice of them to send me this important information.
Security Center Advisory!


WAMU is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, WAMU employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the WAMU system for unusual activity.

In accordance with WAMU's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited.

Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.

In order to secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may require some specific information from you for the following reason:

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Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account.

We apologize for any inconvenience.


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

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[RickM]

You're 75 years old, kids just bought you your first PC for Xmas, you happen to have a WM account......Wham.

That's how they make 10s of millions on Phishing scams.

[widebody911]

I got one a couple of days ago that was the most sophisticated I've seen yet. It claimed to be from the ISP hosting my vintagebus domain, claiming that I had exceeded by bandwidth by X amount, which came to $Y and had a link to secure form where I could not only pay for that bandwidth, but also pre-pay for anticipated overages, or bump up my bandwidth allocation altogether. Very slick, and it even had all of my whois data dropped in. If it hadn't been for the fact that my CNAME and A records don't point to the same place, I might have fallen for it.

[tabascobobcat]

They are becoming more and more realistic daily. I was way too close to giving info to what I thought was my paypal account. Not sure why I contacted paypal 1st, but glad that I did.

[azasadny]

They still usually have poor grammar and misspellings, but I've seen a few that look real...

[tabascobobcat]

Check out the grammer and spelling on this : (It was an attempt at a scam)

Dear eBay Member,

Your bank has contacted us regarding some attempts of charges from your credit card via the eBay system. We have reasons to believe that you changed your registration information or that someone else has unauthorized access to your eBay account Due to recent activity, including possible unauthorized listings placed on your account, we will require a second confirmation of your identity with us in order to allow us to investigate this matter further. Your account is not suspended, but if in 48 hours after you receive this message your account is not confirmed we reserve the right to suspend your eBay registration. If you received this notice and you are not the authorized account holder, please be aware that it is in violation of eBay policy to represent oneself as another eBay user. Such action may also be in violation of local, national, and/or international laws. eBay is committed to assist law enforcement with any inquires related to attempts to misappropriate personal information with the intent to commit fraud or theft. Information will be provided at the request of law enforcement agencies to ensure that perpetrators are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Please use this link to verify the security information:
http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?signin=1&user=3124&notice=2480133428
We apologize for any inconvenience caused and we thank you for the cooperation regarding this matter. Lets keep eBay a safe place for sellers and buyers.

Respectfully,
Trust and Safety Department
eBay Inc.