| Author | Message | ||
     David Gore Moderator Username: david_gore Post Number: 2452 Registered: 4-2003 |
I received a suspicious email this morning to my forum email address from someone I do not know containing links purporting to be a classic car advertised on Ebay. My intuition immediately said this is suspicious and I am posting this in case other forum members receive a similar unsolicited email. The email is from a Paul Klein who does not appear in our Users List and is titled "Fwd: A real SURVIVOR - 1967 Jaguar Etype Series I Coupe - 31k Miles". David . | ||
| Mark Aldridge Grand Master Username: mark_aldridge Post Number: 406 Registered: 10-2008 |
David, received it and deleted it unopened ! Mark | ||
| RR Forums Administrator Board Administrator Username: admin Post Number: 97 Registered: 10-2002 |
This is an interesting one... The email does not in itself contain anything malicious: just a link to an eBay item. What is suspicious is how it is arriving in people's inboxes. The same email has been forwarded from several Yahoo accounts to numerous recipients with rroc.org.au email addresses. The senders are similar (mbz190slmember[at]yahoo.com, mbz190slcollector[at]yahoo.com, mbz190slmember[at]yahoo.com, etc.) and the contents are practically identical: a simple 'FYI' for the same forwarded email from Paul Klein <pmb.klein[at]yahoo.com>. One email is from <paul.klein19[at]yahoo.com>, forwarded from <ericb0436[at]gmail.com>. All the emails come from the Yahoo mail servers so they correspond to real Yahoo accounts. Whether the are legitimate accounts is unlikely, given the evidence to hand. A search for various of the above email addresses yields the following web page with an interesting story: https://www.sl113.org/forums/index.php?topic=23497.0>. Whether it is actually a scam or not, the email behaviour alone raises warning flags for me. I believe the likelihood is high that these emails are a scam or a devious marketing effort and are being cleverly distributed via harvested emails and hijacked Yahoo accounts. It is widely known that Yahoo suffered a massive security breach years ago so any emails from Yahoo addresses should be viewed with distrust as a matter of course. The market in harvested emails is huge and it only takes one hacked PC for your own email to irrevocably join the list of millions of addresses used by spammers and scammers. I would like to assure forum users that it is extremely unlikely that any addresses have been harvested from the forum user database. If you have published your email in a post it is, of course, harvestable. Any of your email correspondents whose PCs or emails have been hacked will have yielded up your address to the harvesters. What's new is that the harvesters seem to be using CRM techniques to associate email addresses with interests so they know who is a likely candidate for specific types of scam - in this case car sales scams. It would be interesting to follow the eBay item to see what happens. | ||
| RR Forums Administrator Board Administrator Username: admin Post Number: 98 Registered: 10-2002 |
After further investigation I found the following discussion that seems relevant: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-used-parts-sale-wanted/733840-scammers-scammers-beware.html | ||
| Vladimir Ivanovich Kirillov Grand Master Username: soviet Post Number: 746 Registered: 2-2013 |
Nobody phuks with my mates where is he? | ||
| Robert Noel Reddington Grand Master Username: bob_uk Post Number: 1315 Registered: 5-2015 |
I got an email like this, I was immediately suspicious because it wasn't anybody I knew so I junked it unopened. Also phone calls asking about my recent car accident ---- which I have not had. What can happen is that suppose one has a small shunt and had a bit of pain for a couple of hours. An inflated claim to insurers can result in fraud and criminal charges while the solicitors get away scot free and take one to civil court and claim legal fees for the failed insurance claim. I have instructed my gangster hit man to kill anyone who trys to scam my family. On special offer is kill one get one and get one free--- bog off. (_._)  | ||
| Patrick Lockyer. Grand Master Username: pat_lockyer Post Number: 1113 Registered: 9-2004 |
Bob, any rouge emails that I receive seem to be sent to my spam box by some form of automation. Then they seem to get removed after a week or so. |
