New Phishing Attack Phales

Watchdog Webmaster Wacks Email Fraudster Attempt

 

Watchdog Staff Writer Wally Nordfish

(WDPR) Bloomington, MN - Sept. 8th, 2006 4:06 PM - An Email received today by Watchdog Webmaster Chris Nielsen turned out not to be a message from his credit card company, or a garden-variety Email identity-theft Phishing scam, but something new. While the message appeared to be from a credit card company, Nielsen was thrown off-guard because the Email did not ask him to visit another web site to enter his information.

 

"No, I've seen enough of those not to fall for that anymore. This one tricked me because it had an 800-number to call. So I called it, but then I was suspicious when the recording sounded like a robot voice from a bad 1960's science fiction movie." reported Nielsen. "I checked the headers in the Email and sure enough the message was sent from somewhere in Russia.

 

"I was tipped off by the recording, but I'm sure there are others that could be taken in," he continued, "we need to get the word out to the people about this latest cyber attack on our economy! People need to know Email is just not safe and to use their own information to call or Email banks and credit card companies directly with known good information.".

 

Nielsen called the three main TV news tip lines to alert them to this new threat, but said the calls were not returned by press time.