Nice scam, bad try !

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Nice scam, bad try !

Posted: 10/23/2004 9:01:01 PM EDT

SO I get this in my e-mail box:

Dear SunTrust valued member,

On the date of 2th of October there was a login attemt from
a foreign IP address which resulted with your account
temporary suspension .

If you weren't accessing your account while travelling
you will have to immediately reactivate your account
and then change it's password to a harder to guess
one.

Please click the link below to reactivate your account:

https://www.suntrust.com/internetBanking/RequestRouter?requestCmdId=Reactivate

Sincerely,
SunTrust Security Department

This notification expires on October 10, 2004.

Nice try, but...

-The 2th of October ?
-attemt ? WTF is that
-"change it's password to a harder to guess
one." Huh, ever take ENC1101 ? Professional Writin ? That is not proper.
-"This notification expires on October 10, 2004." Which is why I got this e-mail on the 23rd of Oct.
-and BTW, I don't have any accounts with SunTrust !

You have to be really stupid to fall for this sort of thing.

Posted: 10/23/2004 9:15:25 PM EDT

[#1]

Sounds like BS to me.

Posted: 10/23/2004 9:16:43 PM EDT

[#2]

I get similar ones - check out the code behind the emails. Right click and select source code (something like that) scroll down the line and you'll see all kinds of whacko text.

Posted: 10/23/2004 9:18:07 PM EDT

[#3]

Have you called them?

The domain is valid. The link you provided tried to run as a executable under Firefox. I saved it to disk and took a look. Not a code monkey but nothing jumped out at me (and no, I'm NOT going to run it

).

I agree the text in the email looks REALLY suspect though. It would have set off all my alarms as well.

Posted: 10/23/2004 9:19:34 PM EDT

[#4]

I get those all the time, and I dont even have a suntrust account

hell I dont think there is even a suntrust branch here in Tucson at all.

Posted: 10/23/2004 9:21:41 PM EDT

[#5]

I got some kind of an email from the supposed SunTrust; and I'm in central Illinois.

Posted: 10/23/2004 9:24:54 PM EDT

[#6]

I get that email every couple of weeks. The link provided has a trojan downloader attached to sniff passwords. Sneaky bastards....

Posted: 10/23/2004 9:26:13 PM EDT

[#7]

I replied to that e-mail and wound up in a tub full of ice sans one good kidney

Posted: 10/23/2004 9:27:26 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
I replied to that e-mail and wound up in a tub full of ice sans one good kidney

oh, I didnt realize you were an ARFCOM member

my bad dude

Posted: 10/23/2004 9:30:04 PM EDT

[#9]

There was a story on World News Tonight on ABC on Thursday, I believe about these scams (phishing) and they mentioned SunTrust by name as one of the company names used by the scammers. Also the ebay one.

Posted: 10/23/2004 9:32:24 PM EDT

[#10]

I get them too, but they say they are from citibank

The URL and the visible URL are different, "View Source" is nifty.

Posted: 10/23/2004 9:38:46 PM EDT

[#11]

Is this more Nigerian crap? Or is it too sophisicated for them? Sounds like a Russian or Eastern European scam to me.

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