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August 20th, 2004, 23:40
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2002 Location: Maryland
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   |  Citibank Email Spoof Be careful, folks. Here is what I just got tonight. Dear TonyW, We recently noticed one or more attemps to sign on to your Citibank account from a foreign IP address and we have reasons to belive that there was attempts to compromise it with brute forcing your PIN number. No successful login was detected and you have full protection by now. If you recently accessed your account while travelling, the unusual login attempts may have been initiated by you. The login attempt was made from: IP address: 173.29.197.24 ISP Host: cache-0082.proxyserver.cis.com By now, we used many techniques to verifythe accuracy of the information our users provide us when they register on the Site. However, because user verification on the Internet is difficult, Citibank cannot and does not confirm each user's purported identity. Thus, we have established an offline verification system to help you evaluate with whom you are dealing with. The system is called CitiSafe and it's the most secure Citibank wallet so far. If you are the rightful holder of the account, click the link bellow, fill the form and then submit as we will verify your identity and register you to CitiSave free of charge. This way you are fully protected from fraudulent activity on all the accounts that you have with us. Click to protect yourself from fraudulent activity! To make Citibank.com the most secure site, every user will be registered to CitiSafe. regards, Citibank Customer Support. U.S. CitiBank Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender Citi Inquiries 100 Citibank Drive P.O. Box 769004 San Antonio, TX 78245-9004 I'm sure that there are many of these going around, not just with Citi, but with other credit card companies and banks. Funny thing is that since I just have a credit card with Citi, not an ATM card, I'm the wrong guy to spoof! Oh, yeah, as for the foreign IP? Not unless Marina del Rey has seceded from the union! |
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August 20th, 2004, 23:45
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| Big Chief's Woman  | Re: Citibank Email Spoof geez.. that's not kewl [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]... did you email citibank to let them know this is flowing around? I've seen ones similar and if at any time it says anything like "click this link to protect yourself" blah blah blah, then I know it's spam!! |
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August 20th, 2004, 23:46
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Utah
Posts: 4,180
| Re: Citibank Email Spoof That doesn't say anything about it being ATM, it sounded to me like it was referring to a credit card. The poor grammer and spelling should hopefully be a dead giveaway for most people. They had a thing about this on 20/20 or one of those shows, Citibank knows about it. I think a similar thing is going on w/ Pay Pal. It's best to always call and talk straight to the company when you have any doubts. Thanks for the warning! |
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August 21st, 2004, 00:03
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Bay Area, CA
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| Re: Citibank Email Spoof How can you tell where the IP address came from? |
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August 21st, 2004, 00:14
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| Old Skool Join Date: May 2002 Location: Maryland
Posts: 15,165
| Re: Citibank Email Spoof If you google IP address lookup, you can find a bunch of places where you enter an IP address, and they tell you who owns it. Michelle, I saw the brute force it with your PIN and thought it might have been trying to get ATM information from me! |
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August 21st, 2004, 00:22
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Bay Area, CA
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| Re: Citibank Email Spoof Man that is horrible grammer, these people need a spell check program! |
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August 21st, 2004, 00:40
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| Old Skool Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Utah
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| Re: Citibank Email Spoof [ QUOTE ] Michelle, I saw the brute force it with your PIN and thought it might have been trying to get ATM information from me! [/ QUOTE ] Oooh. Well credit cards have PIN's too. So they could have meant either. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] |
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August 21st, 2004, 01:19
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| Agent Smith  | Re: Citibank Email Spoof I like how the phisher wanted you to register for "CitiSafe" although if you read your cardholders agreement (I do that stuff, trust me), you've got protection by default. |
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August 21st, 2004, 07:25
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Utopia
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| Re: Citibank Email Spoof Oh, yeah...I've gotten them from BofA, Ebay, Sallie Mae, CitiBank....all lenders of mine for one thing or another!! |
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August 21st, 2004, 10:45
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| Old Skool Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Utah
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| Re: Citibank Email Spoof I got an email this morning that said "Michelle your income was $97,000 last year..." Who knows what the point was and what they wanted me to do with it, but my income was only about 10% of that! LOL! If it really was supposed to be $97K I'd sure like access to those missing checks!! |
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August 21st, 2004, 12:06
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2004 Location: Boston
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| Re: Citibank Email Spoof I got the same e-mail from Citibank. It wanted my social security #, PIN number, mother's maiden name, and all the rest of my personal info. Funny thing is, I don't have a card from them. |
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August 21st, 2004, 12:45
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: not apparently in this universe
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| Re: Citibank Email Spoof [ QUOTE ] I got the same e-mail from Citibank. It wanted my social security #, PIN number, mother's maiden name, and all the rest of my personal info. Funny thing is, I don't have a card from them. [/ QUOTE ] Me neither! Stuff like that immediatly goes to the trash! |
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August 21st, 2004, 12:53
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| Re: Citibank Email Spoof I believe it. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif[/img] |
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August 21st, 2004, 12:53
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| Re: Citibank Email Spoof I thought it was a real email from the bank. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif[/img] |
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August 21st, 2004, 12:58
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| Agent Smith | Re: Citibank Email Spoof I think the key is that I don't use my mother's madien name for ANYTHING at all. I always ask for them to make my security question something like my high school english teacher's last name, or my cats name or the color of my mom's automobile. A little research on the internet and I could probably find anyone's mother's madien name, then dig in your garbage and figure out where you've got accounts at. Couple a call to your credit card company, use the "Oh gee, I forgot my login credentials, but here's my address and mother's maiden name" and voila! I'm getting that hemi-truck with the mudflaps wiff the naked women on it! |
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August 21st, 2004, 20:03
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Park City, UT
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| Re: Citibank Email Spoof I've been getting a lot of the "our system was recently hacked and we need you to follow this link and enter in your account number so that we can verify your identity" types of email from Bank of America which is entertaining because there aren't any banks of america in michigan (or at least around here) and i sure don't have an account with them. If you hover your mouse over the link you can see that the real page it takes you to starts with a series of numbers before it shows up as a "valid" bank of america page. |
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August 21st, 2004, 20:18
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: New York
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| Re: Citibank Email Spoof Sadly, there are people who will fall the many scams like this, which is why they are still around. This is the reason why I have around 5 email addresses, for different levels of public and private use. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] |
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August 21st, 2004, 21:50
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| Newbie  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Seattle
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| Re: Citibank Email Spoof Along those lines be careful about giving out personal information for any reason. When I was younger, and--ahem--not so wise about such things, I hit the mall looking for jobs and blithely plunked down my name, birthday, and SSN on numerous job applications. A couple of years later I was trying really hard to remember when I had bought all the high priced stereo equipment I that was being billed to me. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] Obviously my mistake, but maybe someone else can avoid making the same. |
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