Russian Mobsters in your homes (UPDATE: AFRICAN SCAMMERS ON ORBLE!)
September 18th 2006 01:14
Its funny, it’s strange, it’s peculiar, it’s scary, it’s ironic and it’s freaky, but most of all its true. They are there, right now at your door and they are waiting for you to hand over your credit card numbers, pin numbers, everything. They are practicing the art of internet phishing.
So what is internet phishing? Basically it’s were the bad guy tries to steal your personal information by tricking you into giving it to them. For example they might give you a link to your banks website, only it’s not your banks website (wow what a twist!) but it’s made to look like it. Then you enter your account number and pin to login, and that’s it. They have your account number and pin number, end of story, you have been fooled, see you in the gutter.
Our good friends the Russian mobsters (no I really mean it, we are talking about THE infamous Russian crime syndicates here) are now using this as their latest plan of attack to steal money. Why rob a bank when you can ask politely for the keys and get them too?
How do you prevent this from happening to you? Well it’s actually very simple, if you followed any wayward links (usually from emails) be sure to look at your address bar to see exactly what website your on, if for instance your banks website address is ‘www.mybank.com’, make sure you typed that in correct or followed the correct hyperlink because if it’s something like ‘www.msbank.com’ and it looks just like your banks website then you are most likely at a phishing website.
It doesn’t have to be like that though, perhaps you got an email from ‘staff@mybnk.com’ (notice the typo) telling you to follow a random link so you can enter your pin and account numbers for some made up reason, most common one is because your account will get deleted if you don’t enter your pin number. If you do ever get such emails its best you call your bank by phone and verify its authenticity though it usually if not always is a complete fake. Just keep your eyes open for it.
There are steps being taken, or more like plans being taken to take steps, such as an international education programmer. Why don’t they just sell the story to the sleaziest TV station and let them do a half hour presentation on it to scare the crap out of people? I can see it now “Authorities say that Russian Criminal Syndicates have breached over 80% of Australian homes and stolen their credit cards”
*Source: Crime rings discover spam
A Scam amongst us at Orble! From Africa no less.
Well It’s not everyday this happens, this kind of coincidence is not really what I'd call a coincidence. I think it is very deliberate perhaps this person who just sent me the oh so gracious private message has read my blog post. To think I thought I had hit it big, that I was now being eyed upon by some prestigious IT magazines talent hunter of sorts… how disappointed I was indeed.
I don’t think I am breaking the terms of use for Orble by posting this persons private message to me, this is purely to educate you on the way these online scammers operate, and note this time it is not a Russian mobster, instead its African. Yeah I have gotten such emails before in my time, ironic that I should be attacking the Russian Crimes syndicate when it is these African based scammers who pose the biggest thread, perhaps that is why this was not a coincidence, like some proverbial message form a power beyond our own.
The private message is as follows:
___________
“From Miss Tersy Jabie
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
West Africa.
Dear after going through your profile i decided to contact you for friendship and assistace.I am Miss Tersy Jabie the only child of late chief and Mrs Jabie ,my father was poisoned to death by his business associates because of his wealth and during my fathers sickness he called me on his sick bed as his only child because my mother died when i was young and told me about the money($10.500.000) he deposited in a bank here in our country that it was because of this money he was poisoned that if he dies i shall look for some one whom i trust to help me transfer this money out of this our country to his account for investment purpose abroad while i will continue my education then the person will be managing the investment.Dear am soliciting your assistance to help me transfer this money out of this country for my life sake while i will come to meet you to continue my education in your country.
Dear am looking forward to hear from you so that we can discuss on what will be your compensation for this assistace.As i have every documents that relates to this transfer.
Please reply me directely on this my private mail box for more details.
tersyjabie@yahoo.fr
or
tersyjabie5@yahoo.fr
Expecting to hear from you.
Thanks
miss Tersy Jabie.”
_________
I don’t mind revealing anything here, most of it is fake, this is a scam and I don’t care what they say. Learn from it people, this is how they steal stuff from you.
To think when I got the email that I received a private message I thought I had hit it big in the IT journalism world, I was thinking perhaps some sort of online talent hunter found my work and loved it to bits, I thought I was going to be given an executive job working from high a top a sky scraper reporting the latest developments in news. Instead I got this, what a shame… Well alright I didn't get THAT excited nor did I think it could have been such a thing. All I'm trying to do is highlight the fact.
No not that kind of fishing!
He's waiting for you to give up your pin
It doesn’t have to be like that though, perhaps you got an email from ‘staff@mybnk.com’ (notice the typo) telling you to follow a random link so you can enter your pin and account numbers for some made up reason, most common one is because your account will get deleted if you don’t enter your pin number. If you do ever get such emails its best you call your bank by phone and verify its authenticity though it usually if not always is a complete fake. Just keep your eyes open for it.
There are steps being taken, or more like plans being taken to take steps, such as an international education programmer. Why don’t they just sell the story to the sleaziest TV station and let them do a half hour presentation on it to scare the crap out of people? I can see it now “Authorities say that Russian Criminal Syndicates have breached over 80% of Australian homes and stolen their credit cards”
*Source: Crime rings discover spam
A Scam amongst us at Orble! From Africa no less.
Well It’s not everyday this happens, this kind of coincidence is not really what I'd call a coincidence. I think it is very deliberate perhaps this person who just sent me the oh so gracious private message has read my blog post. To think I thought I had hit it big, that I was now being eyed upon by some prestigious IT magazines talent hunter of sorts… how disappointed I was indeed.
I don’t think I am breaking the terms of use for Orble by posting this persons private message to me, this is purely to educate you on the way these online scammers operate, and note this time it is not a Russian mobster, instead its African. Yeah I have gotten such emails before in my time, ironic that I should be attacking the Russian Crimes syndicate when it is these African based scammers who pose the biggest thread, perhaps that is why this was not a coincidence, like some proverbial message form a power beyond our own.
The private message is as follows:
___________
“From Miss Tersy Jabie
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
West Africa.
Dear after going through your profile i decided to contact you for friendship and assistace.I am Miss Tersy Jabie the only child of late chief and Mrs Jabie ,my father was poisoned to death by his business associates because of his wealth and during my fathers sickness he called me on his sick bed as his only child because my mother died when i was young and told me about the money($10.500.000) he deposited in a bank here in our country that it was because of this money he was poisoned that if he dies i shall look for some one whom i trust to help me transfer this money out of this our country to his account for investment purpose abroad while i will continue my education then the person will be managing the investment.Dear am soliciting your assistance to help me transfer this money out of this country for my life sake while i will come to meet you to continue my education in your country.
Dear am looking forward to hear from you so that we can discuss on what will be your compensation for this assistace.As i have every documents that relates to this transfer.
Please reply me directely on this my private mail box for more details.
tersyjabie@yahoo.fr
or
tersyjabie5@yahoo.fr
Expecting to hear from you.
Thanks
miss Tersy Jabie.”
_________
I don’t mind revealing anything here, most of it is fake, this is a scam and I don’t care what they say. Learn from it people, this is how they steal stuff from you.
To think when I got the email that I received a private message I thought I had hit it big in the IT journalism world, I was thinking perhaps some sort of online talent hunter found my work and loved it to bits, I thought I was going to be given an executive job working from high a top a sky scraper reporting the latest developments in news. Instead I got this, what a shame… Well alright I didn't get THAT excited nor did I think it could have been such a thing. All I'm trying to do is highlight the fact.
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