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Most sophisticated-looking virus email I've ever seen

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edited January 2004 in Science & Tech
Just wanted to notify everybody that I got a very sophisticated looking fake email today. It purports to be from CitiBank, and asks that you log in to check your account for some fraud activity. However, this one looks legitimate - no bad english, no typos, etc. Just be on the lookout and DON'T CLICK THE BUTTON. See the forum thread for a screenshot of the email.

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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Here's a screenshot:
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Ah! A typo! There's your proof right there.

    So, what is the URL it takes you to?
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    "on our system".
    "in regard to these accounts" (as the acounts are still being looked at, thus not past tense).
    "CitiBank notifies all of its customers" (of needed, and "all of it is customers" makes no sense).
    "and asks you to check the balance of each of your accounts" (old way was badly written in general).
    "or have found any fraudulent activity".
    "by logging in through (possibly "via") the link below".

    Actually I think it was still really badly written :rolleyes2
  • TemplarTemplar You first.
    edited January 2004
    And you shouldn't have clicked on it if you don't bank with CitiBank :)
  • BriltBrilt brooklyn
    edited January 2004
    Enverex wrote:
    "on our system".
    "in regard to these accounts" (as the acounts are still being looked at, thus not past tense).
    "CitiBank notifies all of its customers" (of needed, and "all of it is customers" makes no sense).
    "and asks you to check the balance of each of your accounts" (old way was badly written in general).
    "or have found any fraudulent activity".
    "by logging in through (possibly "via") the link below".

    Actually I think it was still really badly written :rolleyes2

    wouldn't it have better for you to have say poorly written then badly written :D
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Brilt wrote:
    Wouldn't it have been better for you to have said "poorly written" rather than "badly written"? :D

    I'm not sure, they both seem to fit correctly, although there probably is some type of contextual law that I am not aware of.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    You guys :rolleyes:
  • BriltBrilt brooklyn
    edited January 2004
    Enverex wrote:
    I'm not sure, they both seem to fit correctly, although there probably is some type of contextual law that I am not aware of.

    The game is afoot Trebek...:D

    I placed some errors in my msg (though I did miss the been... whoops) to show that it doesn't matter...or am I just a fool ha-ha that is for you to find out ... ::echoing maniacal laughter::
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited January 2004
    Enverex wrote:
    I'm not sure, they both seem to fit correctly, although there probably is some type of contextual law that I am not aware of.
    i sure hope ur not gonna edit all our posts, that'll take for ever just grammarfying mine lol:)
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    Aranyic got one the other day. He set a point to revert back to but the IE patch that fixes the problem where urls show as something different than what they really are stopped it. So as long as you are uptodate you should be ok.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    There are still 2 or 3 massively dangerous IE exploits out there which people are not afraid of trying to trick people in to using, which is basically the reason I now have Firebird set as my default browser (before I just used Firebird, now it's default). Basically for the simple reason, they are normally ActiveX exploits which nothing other than IE supports.
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