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From: TaliesinSoft on 16 Jun 2010 14:59 I just now received an email, supposedly from Apple, that asserts that my MobileMe account will be suspended for 48 hours unless I respond to the mail by clicking on a URL and then updating my account information, er uh credit card and such. I would suggest that anyone else receiving the message also ignore it. -- James Leo Ryan -- Austin, Texas -- <taliesinsoft(a)me.com>
From: John McWilliams on 16 Jun 2010 17:43 TaliesinSoft wrote: > I just now received an email, supposedly from Apple, that asserts that > my MobileMe account will be suspended for 48 hours unless I respond to > the mail by clicking on a URL and then updating my account information, > er uh credit card and such. I would suggest that anyone else receiving > the message also ignore it. For amusement, I sometimes click through and enter information. Bogus, of course, the idea being to make them waste time thinking they've got a 'hot one'..... Anyone else do this, and is there a real downside? -- john mcwilliams
From: Richard Maine on 16 Jun 2010 17:56 John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > For amusement, I sometimes click through and enter information. Bogus, > of course, the idea being to make them waste time thinking they've got a > 'hot one'..... > > Anyone else do this, and is there a real downside? I used to do things like that til I got bored with it. I think the main downside is that it most probably wastes more of your time than it does of theirs. If you don't at least go to the trouble of making your credit card number "checksum" right (there's an algorithm for that, which isn't hard to find, but I didn't bother to do so for this posting), I'd guess that it never even bothers a human on their end at all. Oh, and if it does checksum right, I suppose there is the chance of hitting someone else's valid credit card number, which could be a PITA for the unfortunate accidental victim. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Gene E. Bloch on 16 Jun 2010 17:58 On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:43:03 -0700, John McWilliams wrote: > TaliesinSoft wrote: >> I just now received an email, supposedly from Apple, that asserts that >> my MobileMe account will be suspended for 48 hours unless I respond to >> the mail by clicking on a URL and then updating my account information, >> er uh credit card and such. I would suggest that anyone else receiving >> the message also ignore it. > > > For amusement, I sometimes click through and enter information. Bogus, > of course, the idea being to make them waste time thinking they've got a > 'hot one'..... > > Anyone else do this, and is there a real downside? Possible malware on the site. Drive-by Trojans and such, evil Javascript, I don't know. Your security software probably protects you, but I don't know enough to be willing to gamble. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
From: Tom Harrington on 16 Jun 2010 18:03
In article <hvbgh7$h83$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > TaliesinSoft wrote: > > I just now received an email, supposedly from Apple, that asserts that > > my MobileMe account will be suspended for 48 hours unless I respond to > > the mail by clicking on a URL and then updating my account information, > > er uh credit card and such. I would suggest that anyone else receiving > > the message also ignore it. > > > For amusement, I sometimes click through and enter information. Bogus, > of course, the idea being to make them waste time thinking they've got a > 'hot one'..... > > Anyone else do this, and is there a real downside? Depending on what exactly is in the URL, it might confirm to the scammers that your email address is real and belongs to someone who reads their messages. Without taking action they'd never be sure if anyone had seen the message. I don't know how sophisticated their systems might be but it could get you on a list of known "live" email addresses to target for more frequent spams/scams. -- Tom "Tom" Harrington Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002 http://www.atomicbird.com/ |