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| Thread ID: 146315 | 2018-06-29 23:06:00 | Really sophisticated scams | stuffed (1469) | PC World Chat |
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| 1451053 | 2018-06-29 23:06:00 | There are some very very sophisticated scams emerging. One large (non commercial) organisation had ordered new equipment from an international supplier and received the account from them with the note that due to a current audit could they instead pay to their other account. They did and were scammed. How did the scammers get the details of the forthcoming transaction?! How were they so easily able to mimic their email address? It’s actually quite scary and so far removed from the amateurs doing the phone calls etc. |
stuffed (1469) | ||
| 1451054 | 2018-06-30 01:06:00 | I have been getting lots of emails from Countdown, Farmers, any many other NZ businesses with offers but all have strange scource addresses. I showed SWMBO what to look for, blacklist and report them as spam. :( :) | kenj (9738) | ||
| 1451055 | 2018-06-30 01:47:00 | countdown is xxx@Onecard.eid.co.nz | bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1451056 | 2018-06-30 02:01:00 | Its simple to mimic a email address, you can do it in the email program. It can display as one email address but actually get sent to the real (scammer) address. If you have something like Mailwasher it actually shows the real email address. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1451057 | 2018-06-30 04:24:00 | There are some very very sophisticated scams emerging. One large (non commercial) organisation had ordered new equipment from an international supplier and received the account from them with the note that due to a current audit could they instead pay to their other account. They did and were scammed. . That's not sophisticated. Common sense and a does of suspicion goes a long way to solving this sort of ting. I'd have contacted the seller. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1451058 | 2018-06-30 05:12:00 | Most of the successful ones are due to the real email account being compromised (outlook.com seems to be the most common one i’ve seen) usually with stolen credentials from the phishing scams (the phish farms then sell on the creds to the actual perps that run these operations). The scammers then watch for a while, intercepting selected orders and striking on big value transactions with a very convincing fake response - all from the real address and server. Fun times. ;) |
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