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Old 10-02-2007, 11:49 AM   #1
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phishing emails WARNING!

Since i am not a customer of this bank i started looking harder and noticed a few mistakes that a bank would not make.


Dear Wach0via Bank customer,

Wach0via is pleased to notify our online banking customers that we have successfully upgraded to a more secure and encrypted SSL servers to serve our esteemed customers for a better and more efficient banking services in the year 2007.

Due to this recent upgrade you are requested to upgrade your account information by following the reference below, using our new secure and safe SSL servers.

To validate your online banking account click on the following link:
http://201.40.41.27/icons/wach/ovia/service/online/

This email has being send to all our bank customers, and it is compulsory to follow as failure to verify account details will lead to account suspension.

Thank you,
Wach0via Online Banking Security Team.



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Old 10-02-2007, 12:12 PM   #2
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The same thing is done with Ebay and Paypal as well. Good lookin out bro. Anytime I get an email like that I close it and go directly to the real website and log in from there. This way if the message is real it will be on that site.

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Old 10-02-2007, 12:21 PM   #3
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The same thing is done with Ebay and Paypal as well. Good lookin out bro. Anytime I get an email like that I close it and go directly to the real website and log in from there. This way if the message is real it will be on that site.

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I do the same thing.
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Old 10-02-2007, 12:29 PM   #4
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I get the ebay and paypall ones fairly often. Bastards!
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Old 10-02-2007, 12:29 PM   #5
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These damn scam artist b!tches really pizz me off!!! Here we are working our azzes off trying to have nice things and these punks sit on their computers all day long to try and rip people off. When I sell things on Ebay and they send me these emails about they want to give me 300 bucks for something that cost 150 bucks, I send them very violent "I hope you burn to death & Go phuk your mother" type sh!t and they don't send anything back.....

Sorry...I had to vent....I hate theives and cons...scum of the planet!!!

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Old 10-02-2007, 12:36 PM   #6
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I sit at a computer all day at work. I have Yahoo Messenger up and running. About every other day I get a message from some "young single girl" in West Africa. I tell them to eat chit and die!
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Old 10-02-2007, 12:42 PM   #7
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I sit at a computer all day at work. I have Yahoo Messenger up and running. About every other day I get a message from some "young single girl" in West Africa. I tell them to eat chit and die!

Wow, you mean you don't want her to be a future ClayMate..??
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Old 10-02-2007, 12:47 PM   #8
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Sh!t Clay...You don't have to get one all the way from West Africa. Just come down to New Orleans, we have plenty enough Africans to go around!!!!

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Old 10-02-2007, 02:09 PM   #9
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Make sure when you get the Ebay types that you "forward" the email to spoof@paypal.com for evaluation, and then delete.
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