Hey Hey,

I just recieved my first phishing email... (at least the first one that I've noticed anyways)... and it got me thinking. These offers seem too good to be true (which they are) but that's part of the reason why people bite into them.. Hook, Line and Sinker.... They obviously work or we wouldn't still receive attempts. I'm willing to be that a good number of people don't reply blindly, but that they at least try to find information (or at least I hope that they would). These people may search google and find nothing so they 'don't worry as much because no one else has mentioned it and what are the odds that they're the only person to get this email' (or at least that seems to be to be a fairly normal line of thinking with people). We all know that if we search for our posts online that google has many of them listed. Also the thread I posted about the phone call I received was responded too because someone else searched for that number on google. It can be a source of information for some people.

So here's what I'm getting at (Yes I know... I'm long winded)... I think we need a single thread, dedicated to the purpose of cataloguing these phishing attempts. If we post every attempt we receive it could seriously narrow down the chances of someone being scammed. I realize there are sites dedicated to this, but AO is linked by some fairly big sites and is a rather large source of information for people... I think it'd be a nice addition to the site.

So here's the first one... including full headers... only my email address has been sanitized.

X-Gmail-Received: ec731e790fb4a937dfd81db3bbc8338a831e7a1c
Delivered-To: XXXXXXXX
Received: by 10.38.86.73 with SMTP id j73cs23808rnb;
Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:33:11 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.54.28.80 with SMTP id b80mr49576wrb;
Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:33:11 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from www.zipmail.com.br (smtp.zipmail.com.br [200.221.11.147])
by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 43si706330wri.2005.01.27.07.33.09;
Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:33:11 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: pass (gmail.com: domain of [email protected] designates 200.221.11.147 as permitted sender)
Received: from [66.178.81.66] by www.zipmail.com.br with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:17:17 -0200
Message-ID: <41F8917500001FF7@www.zipmail.com.br>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:17:17 +0100
From: [email protected]
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?from=20HARRY=20GOLDEN?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Dear Sir

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.

First of all I wish to introduce myself, I am a bank manager with a bank
in Indonesia and we have a contract in the Sweden and my client and his
family died in the flood that claimed many life in Indonesia and we hav=
e
unconcluded business here in Indonesia which runs into millions and I wil=
l
need you to act as the next of kins to this transaction.

The bank have called for us to produce the next of kin immediately, since=

the client is dead, that we can be able to withdraw the sum of $30,000,00=
0.00.(Thirty
Million United States Dollar only.) deposited in their bank which we are
doing business with.

Kindly accept my appeal as quickly as possible to enable us divert the fu=
nd
to your account before the civil unrest in these Asia country is under co=
ntrol.

What I need from you is to act as next of kins to the fund I will introdu=
ce
you to the bank / companies attorney who have all the relevant documents
of the whole transaction and who will handle the process of this claims.

We have agreed the followings,

That you will be required to provide a company /private account were this=

money will be transferred to.

That you will produce a personal/company account to receive the sum of $3=
0,000,000.00.

That you will have 25% of the total sum when the money arrives in your ac=
count.

That 5% will be maped out for local and international expenses to be incu=
red
during the process of transaction.

This transaction is 100% Risk free,and you will be required to keep this
transaction absolutely confidential.

kindly forward to us your contact details for easy communication.

Thanks for anticipated corporation.

Yours faithfully,

HARRY GOLDEN.





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Anyways, it's just an idea... let's see if it flies.

Peace,
HT