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Topic : If only this spam was true....

Good morning,
Thank you for using our new service "Buy airplane ticket Online" on our website.
Your account has been created:

Your login: [email protected]
Your password: pass1ZEG

Your credit card has been charged for $609.30.
We would like to remind you that whenever you order tickets on our website you
get a discount of 10%!
Attached to this message is the purchase Invoice and the airplane ticket.
To use your ticket, simply print it on a color printed, and you are set to take
off for the journey!

Kind regards,
Hawaiian Airlines


Posted: 17/09/2008 19:11:46
By: Hamish3321
I got a very similar one purporting to be from Continental Airlines with a similar instruction to use a colour printer. Despite the reported $600+ charge, nothing has been taken off my credit card yet so I wonder what they hope to achieve?


Posted: 17/09/2008 20:28:42
By: Richard S
The scam, 
you read the email in horror because you have an unknown $600 or whatever charged to your account. you ring the very helpful customer services number and the conversation goes something like this....

"hello,Hawaii airlines customer services, how may i help you."
"you have charged my card with $600 for a flight that I didnt book."
"I see, I'll need to take a few details to check that booking.and of course to verify your identity.
your name,
your address,
the flight number and the 16 digit reference on the invoice
and for security, your date of birth please.
I see, it does appear to be booked in error, I'll cancel that booking right now while you are on the line........
there thats done sir, now I'll credit your account with the full refund, and a gift of �10 for your inconvienience. may i check your card details and its expiry date"

Bingo instant ID theft, then watch the charges run up!

here is a link to the early generation scam...
http://antivirus.about.com/od/emailscams/l/blccscams.htm


Posted: 17/09/2008 20:55:54
By: the artless Bodger
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. I seeeeeeeeee. Thanks for that. Glad I ignored it and didn't even open the attachment (just checked my credit card account!)


Posted: 17/09/2008 22:29:55
By: Richard S
NEVER believe any old balooney on an email you are not expecting.

NEVER open an attachment unless you know damn well what it is and who it is from.


Posted: 18/09/2008 11:44:32
By: Mags
Or unless you are doing it on some one else's computer!!!


Posted: 18/09/2008 18:20:16
By: Wicked!
The scariest phishing emails are supposedly from the banks - complete with logos etc and requiring you to go to a link to "verify" account details. Even paypal and ebay have been mimicked lately! 

However it helps to show hey're fake if it's from a bank you've never banked with and addressed to an email address you wouldn't use for banking!!


Posted: 18/09/2008 20:18:48
By: Pat2121
Never get much from my accounts, The wife and MR Harken seem to get all mine


Posted: 18/09/2008 20:37:03
By: CJR
oddly, the chairman of the Merlin Rockets ([email protected]) has received several of these airplane tickets. 
It was perplexing at first.
Committee will be discussing this correspondence received for, say, 1 second, at the next committee meeting.
Steve


Posted: 18/09/2008 21:12:40
By: CHAIRS
If I took any notice of the scam emails that keep coming through, I'd have multiple Phds, I'd be skint because all my money (ho ho) would have been phished, I wouldn't be able to raise my arms with the weight of them rolexs which would be just as well because something else would be dragging on the floor.


Posted: 18/09/2008 22:29:55
By: likeitcomfy
I must be very lucky because I have won the Nigerian lottery on several occasions without even buying a ticket.  There also seem to be a large number of very unlucky African chiefs involved in the oil industry who get killed in plane crashes whose sons have obviously have heard about the cost of new Merlin Rockets and just for the supply of my bank account number would facilitate my purchase of one.  Fortunately I don't have a PhD in gullability!!


Posted: 18/09/2008 23:43:44
By: Garry R
...And you wouldn't get any more spam mail because the viruses in the attachments would have completely screwed your PC!!

Mailwasher (Free) preprocesses my mail and spotted several of these with viruses in the attached "credit card statement" or "invoice". Beware!


Posted: 20/09/2008 09:14:59
By: Pat2121

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