Can you believe this crap?
 

An email I got this morning:
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Dear Citibank Member,

This email was sent by the Citibank server to verify your E-mail
address. You must complete this process by clicking on the link
below and entering in the small window your Citibank ATM/Debit
Card number and PIN that you use on ATM.

This is done for your protection - because some of our members
no longer have access to their email addresses and we must
verify it.

To verify your E-mail address and access your bank account,
click on the link below:

https://web.da-us.citibank.com/signin/citifi/scripts/email_verifyjsp

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Thank you for using Citibank

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I personally don't think enough is being done about Internet fraud. The person who sent this email should be locked up for 10 years. I can't believe people have the balls to do this stuff.

I can't believe people are dumb enough to fall for it, myself. It's just like spam -- people continue to send spam because every so often, somebody follows the stupid link and gives the spammer some money. <sigh> As long as people are stupid, someone else will try to take advantage of that stupidity.

Dan

Re: Can you believe this crap?
 

I totally agree. I get this stuff maybe once every two days, from people pretending to be Ebay, Paypal, Credit Card companies, etc. Not only is this fraudulent, I believe it is in effect, electronic tresspassing (just like phone telemarketing) and I should have the legal right to retaliate. Any software programmers want to design me an e-bomb that will blow their computers up when I get this stuff? :D

JCM

Maybe an email or call to citibank will help put the creep where he/she belongs... http://web.da-us.citibank.com/cgi-bin/citifi/scripts/prod_and_service/prod_serv_detail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&BS_Id=Safe Web&M=S

The problem is people like my parents fall for that stuff every day. And chances are the punks are somewhere in Russia and will never be caught.

We should have invaded Russia or Nigeria instead of Iraq, get rid of scumbag leaders + kill some ebay scammers while we're at it. :)

Denis, somehow I just knew you'd work the war and Bush into this ;)

Nah, we should kill Silicon Valley.

Back in the day (early 90's), we used to send "Mail Bombs" to these jokers. Basically you'd take a large video data file, like say, the SuperBowl, and UUEncode it into text. The text file would be dumped into an email, and then rapid-fired at the spammer's email address about 100 times. This would nuke the receiver's email server.

Unfortunately, now they all use bogus addresses :(

dtw,

A friend of mine used to do exactly that! Along with a few copies of The Bible in txt format. He'd send it off about 40-50 times, with a thank-you note. :cool:

I have a whole stack of junk-faxes that I am retaliating against tonight. "DONT SPAM ME" in Helvetica Black repeated all across the page with my fax number at the bottom. Will be sending each of the lucky recipients about 100 copies tonight at 10 pm.

Take several sheets, tape them together. Feed the first one thru, then tape it to the last one to make a 'loop'.

Thom - Going to send them via the computer... I could send a thousand pages if I wanted too!

Richard, that almost sounds like a "SPAM ME" request. Good luck to ya, let us know how it turns out.

Dan

I had my bank call me last week on my cell phone to try and sell me on some credit protection scam thing they are always pushing.

I turned the tables on them. Told the person I thought this was a fraudulent request for my personal info. Asked them to prove they were who they said they were. I asked this girl her mother's maiden name. She gave it to me. I asked her for her husbands' middle name. She gave it to me. I asked for her SS#. She started laughing, then gave it to me. I asked for her number, she said she couldn't get calls, she could only make calls. We both laughed, and then afetr hanging up, I called the bank fraud line. I gave them all the info, and 20 minutes later, both of the operators came on the line together and we all had a good laugh.

I don't trust anybody anymore.

don't you want to fax a solid black piece of paper?

Dan - I have a feature on my fax machine to block numbers. So, unless they fax from another number, they won't be able to bug me again.

Todd - There's gotta be a message, ya know? I'm going to try and think of something good. But it will definitely be 80-90% ink coverage on the page.

Richard

Do the text in white on black. :D

When we get junk mail, I remove the part with my name, tear the rest of it up and send it back in the prepaid envelope.

What a great idea! I'm gonna get the Secretary onto this:D

Spammers die http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/ar15.gif Guns are good!