I just received this in my inbox...

[xmastree]

http://www.lotechdesigns.com/host/thumbs/6027Screenshot.png (http://www.lotechdesigns.com/host/images/6027Screenshot.png)

Nice of them to make clear their intentions in the subject, don't you think?

[DaJe]

Perhaps Yahoo marked it as phishing and put that there?

[Luke122]

That's what I'm inclined to believe also.. it looks as though the phishing tag was injected as a warning by your mail server.

:)

[Scotty]

I've had some awesome ones. The best bit is i have a bam account with any of them.

The best one was the paypal one i had, apparently i owed paypal something like $678 million... Thing is that did look genuine, the email was from paypalservice.com or something like that. which linked to something like www.service.com/paypal.com. i can't remember.

[Quakken]

When I was one of the masses on myspace, I found one of those, a redirected sign in page. It was very very well done, very authentic, but firefox caught it. A big red "DON'T DO ANYTHING AT THIS SITE" popped up. the ironic thing was that it linked to the real "don't let phishers catch you" myspace site. I actually had it bookmarked for a while just for the nerdiness of it.

The people who do this get very good at it. They probably steal BANK also. Like thousands of dollars at a time. Those terrible people. Oh well.

[Drum Thumper]

I had one show up a while back supposedly for BankOfAmerica, with whom I have no accounts. I gave them some bogus information. I'd disclose what I typed, but this is a family/business oriented site (regardless of what digg says). I'll say this though: George Carlin would have been proud of the email address I came up with!

[Ichbin]

I like to break them apart, see where the site is hosted from (The one that takes your info), grab the IP, and give it to the hosting provider/police.

[killergamer]

Sorry, but I'm kinda confused what is it? What do they take your information? Like a scam?:think:

[Drum Thumper]

Sorry, but I'm kinda confused what is it? What do they take your information? Like a scam?:think:

A classic redirect phishing scheme is what we're talking about here.

[crenn]

I love it when you suddenly get mail from other banks that you've never heard of asking for details. I was tempted to send a reply saying "You twits"

[DaJe]

It's like how on Skype I recieved a spam message before. It presented itself as a Windows update advisor and said I desperately needed to update Windows, and listed the versions effected. Yet I use Vista, which wasn't listed. It's bull****, but some people fall for it.

[Drum Thumper]

It's bull****, but some people fall for it.

Some people? I think the actual number would scare you.

[Omega]

I got one of these:

"MR ABDOUL HASSAN
The Manager of Audit & Accountancy Dept.
African Development Bank/A.D.B.
Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.

( READ CAREFULLY AND KEEP SECRET)

Happy New Year!
Greeting, and how are you doing?I hope fine.Please let this my message do not be a surprise to you because i got your information and lay trust in you before i contacted you.

I am the MANAGER OF AUDIT & ACCOUNTANCY DEPARTMENT of our bank and i decided to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of TWENTY TWO MILLION,THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($22,300,000.00).

This is an abandoned fund that belongs to the one of our bank foreign customers who died along with his completely family on july,2002 in a plane crash disaster.

I was very fortune to came acroos the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files of 2007-2008 in other to submit to the bank managements accordingly for documentation purposes.

It is clearly stated in our BANKING FOREIGN POLICY and signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed by the NEXT OF KIN till the period of SEVEN(7) years starting from the date when the beneficiary died,

the money will be transferred into the BANK TREASURY as an unclaimed fund.Besides,it is not authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of BURKINA FASO to make the claim of the fund.

So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased.

When the fund is transferred into your account,FOURTY PERCENT(40%) will be for you in an assistance and in provision of the bank account,while SIXTY PERCENT (60%) will be for me.

If you are really sure of your integerity, trustworthy and confidentiality,reply with your contact necessary for the transfer and call me as soon as you get this so that i will let you know the steps to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately.

I will be waiting for your urgent reply.

My regards to you and your family,
Dr. Abdoul Hassan.
13/01/2008"

I'm responding to it with some interesting requests, lets see if they're fufilled. Should I ask for a photo of this so called Doctor holding a sign with "TBCS" on it? =D

[crenn]

This sounds so familiar!

[Ichbin]

YES! omg, Omega, I would love you if you did that!

[Omega]

sent.

the best part is that this "African" dude is in france -- I got the email from yahoo.fr.

[Needsleep]

http://www.419eater.com

interesting site if you get the chance to have a looksee - users are actively encouraged to (safely) waste as much of the scammers time as possible - they have some pretty 'extreme' ways of doing so (some moderate adult content but it's labled as NSFW when it occurs).

The Register has an article on one of the myspace phishing pages here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/12/poisoned_myspace_page/), most people who read these boards will spot a dodgy email/website a mile away but imho is always good to raise awareness of some of the poop that goes on without scare mongering.