I got an email a few days ago purporting to be from Chase Bank about a
problem with my account. I do have a Chase card but not a regular bank
account.
I use Thunderbird for reading emails, and I display in plain text unless
clicking the "Show HTML" button seems appropriate, so I could see that
the sender's email address was obviously nothing to do with Chase, and
the "Log in" button went to somewhere other than Chase.
When I tried to forward it to abuse@chase.com, my ISP blocked it as
"Spam" -- and even when I put spaces between some of the letters in that
email address and link URL. So why did the ISP let it get to me in the
first place, you ask. Because I got fed up with them flagging as Spam
messages that were not Spam (especially from Yahoo groups), so I told
them to stop *their* Spam checks and let me decide what is and isn't Spam.
73
Alan NV8A
On 1/23/19 12:13 PM, David Robbins wrote:
I got one yesterday that was obvious phishing... it was from an address I
didn't know, it was addressed to 'undisclosed recipients', and it had a .doc
file. The text of the message said to enable editing to read the payment info,
which should never be needed! I sent it to my virus scanner service desk
because the scanner didn't alarm on it... they came back this morning with
updates to their definitions files because it was a new one. Just fair
warning, there are new attacks every day and some day you may be a target
before it has been identified.
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://wiki.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://k1ttt.net:7373
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Marsh
KA5M
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 16:44
To: TowerTalk
Subject: [TowerTalk] FW: Your Enrolled Payment has been initiated
Got the below e-mail this morning. It came with an attached .doc that I did not
click on.
Marsh, KA5M
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk
<towertalk-bounces@contesting.comcontabilidad@empresasolympia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 3:36 AM
To: marsh@ka5m.net
Subject: Your Enrolled Payment has been initiated
Dear,
Attached is your invoice from TowerTalk.
ACCOUNT NUMBER
1256442
INVOICE NUMBER
DKG435138-88
AMOUNT
£551.72
As always, thank you for your business.
TowerTalk
021 8997 3733
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