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Title: Fraud Alert!
Post by: ExGeeEye on January 10, 2013, 07:36:53 PM
I just got an e-mail from "Visa"-- no bank, just "Visa"-- saying my card is suspended due to prevent fruadulent use  :rofl:

I'm supposed to click a link and follow the steps to get the suspension lifted  :rofl: :rofl:

I just betcha the steps are:

--give us yoiur card number
--give us your security code
--give us the exp date
--and your full name.  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I'm just a little bit smarter than that.

Anybody know where I can forward this so there might be some legal repercussions?

(I'd really like to troll 'em hard first, but I don't have the time to do it well.)
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: Mike220 on January 10, 2013, 07:46:05 PM
I just got an e-mail from "Visa"-- no bank, just "Visa"-- saying my card is suspended due to prevent fruadulent use  :rofl:

I'm supposed to click a link and follow the steps to get the suspension lifted  :rofl: :rofl:

I just betcha the steps are:

--give us yoiur card number
--give us your security code
--give us the exp date
--and your full name.  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I'm just a little bit smarter than that.

Anybody know where I can forward this so there might be some legal repercussions?

(I'd really like to troll 'em hard first, but I don't have the time to do it well.)

Man, the Nigerian princes aren't even trying anymore.
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: DefiantSix on January 10, 2013, 09:25:32 PM
Man, the Nigerian princes aren't even trying anymore.

There's an awful lot of competition coming from a new guy, the Kenyan dick tater.
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: Celtic Rose on January 10, 2013, 10:40:59 PM
From Visa's website:

How can I report fraudulent Visa Web site or e-mail?
You can report e-mail fraud claiming to be from Visa by attaching the suspicious message to an e-mail addressed to: phishing@visa.com

Visa will never send you an e-mail asking for confidential information such as account numbers, passwords, PIN numbers, credit card numbers or social security numbers.

Protect yourself from fraudulent e-mails claiming to be from a credit card company, bank or other popular Internet web site. Delete unsolicited e-mails that ask for this type of your bank's information. If you suspect you've provided confidential information to a fraudulent site, contact the customer service department.
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: CG6468 on January 11, 2013, 10:53:31 AM
FTC (spam@UCE.gov)
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on January 11, 2013, 10:56:59 AM
I believe the FBI also has a cybercrime reporting page on their website.
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: ExGeeEye on January 11, 2013, 10:57:22 AM

You can report e-mail fraud claiming to be from Visa by attaching the suspicious message to an e-mail addressed to: phishing@visa.com

Thanks. Done.
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: Gina on January 11, 2013, 11:19:33 AM
I just got an e-mail from "Visa"-- no bank, just "Visa"-- saying my card is suspended due to prevent fruadulent use  :rofl:

I'm supposed to click a link and follow the steps to get the suspension lifted  :rofl: :rofl:

I just betcha the steps are:

--give us yoiur card number
--give us your security code
--give us the exp date
--and your full name.  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I'm just a little bit smarter than that.

Anybody know where I can forward this so there might be some legal repercussions?

(I'd really like to troll 'em hard first, but I don't have the time to do it well.)

You so ought to just enter funky numbers or dates and screw with them.  Make them work for it.  :-)
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: CG6468 on January 11, 2013, 01:35:01 PM
You so ought to just enter funky numbers or dates and screw with them.  Make them work for it.  :-)

Absolutely not. That tells them that their messages are being received and read.
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: Gina on January 11, 2013, 03:08:00 PM
Absolutely not. That tells them that their messages are being received and read.

Ummm yeh....do you not screw with telemarketers?  I so screw with anyone calling my house.   :-)
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: ColonelCarrots on January 11, 2013, 03:21:11 PM
Ummm yeh....do you not screw with telemarketers?  I so screw with anyone calling my house.   :-)

Once someone texted me
Her- "Hey you wanna go out clubbing tonight?"
Me- Sure! I need to go shopping first.
"Lol, why?"
I gotta look good for the ladies.
"Lol ok"
Yeah I need to buy some new thongs.

Then I get a call.
"Tony?"
Nope
"Oh ok well bye"
Bye
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: Dori on January 11, 2013, 06:23:18 PM
Ummm yeh....do you not screw with telemarketers?  I so screw with anyone calling my house.   :-)

LOL....remember the days of the old PCs on land lines?  It took forever to download a picture.  When spam was first started, i would reply to them loading up several very large photographs and hit the send button before going to bed.  I figured it would take them hours to download my response, backing up all their other mail.


Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: BEG on January 11, 2013, 06:32:44 PM
Ummm yeh....do you not screw with telemarketers?  I so screw with anyone calling my house.   :-)

I don't even have an answering machine on my home phone anymore. If I don't know who it is I don't answer it. I give my cell number to the school, doctor offices or other important companies/people. It has cut down on sales calls a ton. When it rings and rings and no one answers they think it isn't a valid number and they take it off the list.
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: CG6468 on January 12, 2013, 09:43:23 AM
Ummm yeh....do you not screw with telemarketers?  I so screw with anyone calling my house.   :-)

When I care to pick up the phone, Gina. That's once in a blue moon.
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: Gina on January 14, 2013, 01:06:39 PM
LOL....remember the days of the old PCs on land lines?  It took forever to download a picture.  When spam was first started, i would reply to them loading up several very large photographs and hit the send button before going to bed.  I figured it would take them hours to download my response, backing up all their other mail.




 :rotf:
Title: Re: Fraud Alert!
Post by: Eupher on January 14, 2013, 02:32:49 PM
Absolutely not. That tells them that their messages are being received and read.

Yup. Best just to leave the assholes think their stuff got through rather than confirm it.