Posts Tagged ‘phishing’

Phishing via a forum’s Private Messages

January 22nd, 2008 by Sarah King

We are all used to the phishing emails that we get sent from “banks” and “auctions sites” – trying to steal your logins for financial gain. A new phase has started where phishing messages are sent via the private message (PM) facility at a forum.

The motive in this case is pure revenge, but with forums being used for trading, deals, and product promotion the trend is very dangerous – primarily because you believe you “know” the users, or atleast have some sort of respect and trust between you.

Lets walk through the steps. Read the rest of this entry »

Domain registration changes we need!

December 17th, 2007 by Sarah King

I check the whois records for domains reasonably often. Whoisguard type systems are commonly in place to protect the identity of the domain owner. No problems there.

What irks, though, is the people who give completely false information… like this one where the info is incomplete and gives an Australian address yet I know that the actual owner is in India. By saying he’s in Melbourne he aquires a western credibility he perceives as superior to his Indian identity. Read the rest of this entry »

TradeMe phishing is not harmless

April 13th, 2006 by Sarah King

There’s an article in the paper today quoting Keith Ng as saying there is little point behind the latest round of phishing, this time targetting online auction house TradeMe. Read the rest of this entry »

How eBay can help stop Phishing

September 15th, 2005 by Sarah King

I just received a sternly worded email from “eBay” of which I am not a registered user. Out of curiousity I decided to view the source of the email and see which tricks this nasty Phisher had employed Read the rest of this entry »

Phishing Emails

June 29th, 2005 by Sarah King

Been getting pesky email spam lately. Especially all those Phishing emails? View the source of the email and post the real info about the spammers here.

An example is this email I got today Read the rest of this entry »

Phishing?

May 5th, 2005 by Sarah King

Well here’s a funny old thing. I’ve done a bit of coding on PropertyTalk and I’ve put up a currency converter courtesy of OzForex. Every so often someone keys in something odd. Read the rest of this entry »