WARNING - Bank of America - WARNING

[Woussko]

If any of you do business with Bank of America and receive an e-mail that sure looks official where it asks you to click a link and update your info, do NOT under any conditions click on that link. It is NOT from BOA. Is is a hacker's making.

[res057]

For the So. Cal folks, Downey Savings is having the same thing going around.

[hewood]

Thanks for the warning. I also see similar scams about my PayPal account.

[Velosapien]

Well as a general rule no institution will ever email you asking you to update any info. If they do it's always a scam. That applies to credit cards, banks, paypal, ebay, pretty much anything.

[American and Proud]

Well as a general rule no institution will ever email you asking you to update any info. If they do it's always a scam. That applies to credit cards, banks, paypal, ebay, pretty much anything.
Exactly! It is a pretty old scam . Just like all the others, you won the forign national lottery,or, the " hi im so an so from a small country and somehow have millions if you give me your bank info ill sent it all and you can have 1/2 " type crap . Fools fall for this stuff and they get what they deserve. These are all widely known scams. To put up a "warning" about a bank because you got a scam email , makes it sound like they had somthing to do with it. Did you fall for it and are now wanting to blame them for it?
Bank of America had nothing to do with it , nor can they keep someone from falling for these scams. So the warning should be , I got an email wanting my banking info back by email, if any .Not -WARNING Bank of America WARNING. IMO.

[drtyhands]

Thanks for the warning. I also see similar scams about my PayPal account.
PayPal hit us up as well,Thanks for the warning guys.

[Velosapien]

I used to get these almost weekly for ebay and paypal.

[Woussko]

Update on BOA Warning

It had their logo and sure looked real. I didn't fall for it and didn't click the link. My account manager said that a good many seniors did fall for it and now BOA is busy changing account numbers and such. DAMN Hackers

[Disaster]

The obvious advice is to never reply to anything from ANYONE that requests any personal information. If you think it is legitimate, contact the source through one of YOUR links....either their website you have bookmarked or their phone number.

Having said that, I've never got one of these that wasn't obviously a fake. It is easy to see a fake because when you right click on the link they have imbedded and check the properties the actual address will be wrong. It is often something like, http://www.centuryweb.com/practical/11137/infield/ebay.com. Note the base URL does not look anything like Ebay. I've never seen these cons go as far as to purchase a URL name.

[VASandy]

PLEASE do not visit those sites or click the links in the emails!!! If your bank needs information from you, they will send you a letter instructing you to go to the branch where you can update your information. They will never do so in an email!

The links can be constructed VERY artfully using special colors in the url that will make it look like your bank's URL, but it'll take you to someplace else. Using white letters in the URL to disguise the redirection is a common practice. The best practice is to report those emails to your bank, as well as to the DOJ. The website http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/websites/idtheft.html has some very good information as well.

[Velosapien]

This is a little quiz site by McAfee to see how good you are at spotting scams:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/quizzes/phishing_0707/

[Woussko]

Update

I get those hacker e-mail from people faking eBay and PayPal. If you get any please forward them to Soof@ebay.com or Spoof@paypal.com as the case my be. They want them so they can track down trouble makers and take legal action. As others have said NEVER respond or click links on such e-mail. They are the working of evil hackers.

[plumberscrack]

Sadly I had someone hack my Ebay password from me last month. :mad:

Then he used my account to post 200 items for auction. Mostly new DVD movies for $20 less than everyone else. :(

Ebay caught him and cancelled the auctions before I even knew about it. :D

Apparently they know that I only use my account to purchase tools and not sell discount DVDs. Pretty cool.

Luckily I keep a super duper secret password for my PayPal account or my bank account would have been toast :eek:

[Woussko]

PC

Let your account manager at your bank (Please do this by phone or in person) know you have a PayPal account. He/she can set you up with a special bank account that will not be tied into your other accounts. Then don't keep all that much $$$ in it. Most major banks have overdaft protection in case you get hacked. I'm glad eBay got the hacker. Now if the hackers could just see the business end of a custom made 4 x 12ga where 2 are rock salt and 2 are slugs.....

[DuckButter]

PLEASE do not visit those sites or click the links in the emails!!! If your bank needs information from you, they will send you a letter instructing you to go to the branch where you can update your information. They will never do so in an email!

The links can be constructed VERY artfully using special colors in the url that will make it look like your bank's URL, but it'll take you to someplace else. Using white letters in the URL to disguise the redirection is a common practice. The best practice is to report those emails to your bank, as well as to the DOJ. The website http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/websites/idtheft.html has some very good information as well.
GUYS...DON'T click that...sorry Sandy...I got a prompt from my firewall that it was attempting to install something.

[westcoastplumber]

Sadly I had someone hack my Ebay password from me last month. :mad:

Then he used my account to post 200 items for auction. Mostly new DVD movies for $20 less than everyone else. :(

Ebay caught him and cancelled the auctions before I even knew about it. :D

Apparently they know that I only use my account to purchase tools and not sell discount DVDs. Pretty cool.

Luckily I keep a super duper secret password for my PayPal account or my bank account would have been toast :eek:

Wow,

I would have been worried if i were you,

Luckily my password are croatian words and numbers with paypal

Only my dad would probably know it,he doesnt speak english though and is all the wy back in europe:D:D

But hacking into someones computer and stealing all the info on it is the whole different story:D

mrs westocoast

[VASandy]

GUYS...DON'T click that...sorry Sandy...I got a prompt from my firewall that it was attempting to install something.

Hey DuckButter! Sorry about that! It's a legit link, as I went to the DOJ site to find their reporting information. I don't know where the "install something" is coming from...maybe some java they have on the site. I didn't get any installation warnings. I don't blame anyone one bit for not following a link that tries to install stuff, so just go to their website and search for yourselves.

To find the information, usdoj.gov is their address. There really is some useful information there.

[VASandy]

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter how random your password may be. These guys aren't brute-force hacking. There's a trojan out called Payrob.A that will start searching for the passwords on your computer, save them to a file, then when the hacker connects to your computer, they'll just grab that file and they have all the information. They don't need to guess at the pw. To check for Payrob.A infection, search for a file called modeexpinovo.txt in your temporary internet folders. This file name may change in the future, but for now (according to Panda Software Labs) that's the name. If you have that file, delete it and start scanning your system for trojans. Make sure your AntiVirus is up to date. You will want to notify PayPal, your bank, and EBay that you have been infected. Immediately change your passwords (after getting rid of the virus) on all of your bank/financial websites.

[res057]

Remember the good old days? I'd take a very large, bad sob to take a little of my cash (at GREAT risk to his own well being), but now, a 12 year old with a computer can clean you out and you won't know it until it's too late. The really sad part is that it is not as easy of a revenue stream as a traffic violation, so not much gets investigated at the local level.:mad: