The following email messages are examples
of actual email phishing scams or attempts to deliver a virus via email.
Most of these examples appear to have been sent by your Internet
Service Provider (ISP).
You may also receive this type of email
scam that appears to have been sent by Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Ebay,
Paypal, or a familiar
credit card or bank.
If you do receive one of the following emails or a similar email message
in your inbox, please avoid opening any attachments and delete
the email.
NOTE: If you receive a questionable email and it is not listed here, do
not assume that the email is valid. This list is simply a small sample
of the large amount of scam emails that are circulating.
2/1/2012 Phishing Scam (includes malicious link)
From: Your ISP Webmaster [mailto:salmansk@dhaka.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:18 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Account Update
This is to inform you that we have carried out maintenance
on your email
account and so therefore you cannot be able to receive or read
new messages
in your inbox until you complete the maintenance process. To
complete the maintenance on your email account, Please kindly login to our
message center within the next 24hrs so as to avoid any problem with your email
account.
Click here to complete the process
Note: The information contained in this message, including
any attachments, may be privileged, confidential, or protected from disclosure
under state or
federal laws. If the reader of this message is not the intended
recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to
the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination,
distribution, or
copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you
have received this communication in error, please notify the Sender immediately
by a "reply to sender only" message and destroy all electronic or
paper copies of the communication, including any attachments.
1/25/2012 Phishing Scam (includes malicious link)
From: American Airlines [mailto:JordanNiswender@somedomain.cl]
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 7:08 PM
To: user@yourdomain.com
Subject: Your Flight Order NO648_6177799
Dear Customer,
FLIGHT ELECTRONIC NUMBER N9653951
DATE & TIME / FEBRUARY 25, 2011, 14:18 PM
ARRIVING: NEW YORK JFK
TOTAL PRICE : 033.06 USD
Please download and print out your ticket here:
http://www.aa.com/flight-nyc/flightno76864017 (malicious link)
Harlan Randall,
American Airlines
