ePassporte Scam

[Jim]

Are you guys getting the scam emails regarding ePassporte like the ones we get about paypal?

Here is a copy...
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ePassporte monitors your account closely to insure that your funds are protected from fraudulent use. Your account has been temporarily suspended, pending our investigation, due to unusual activity.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please To update your ePassporte records, click on the following link or copy it in to your browser as soon as possible.


Click Here

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you, your account and your credit cards

We apologize for any inconvenience .
Sincerely, The ePassporte Team
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The click here takes you to an ip address. Here it is but, don't fill out the form

http://64.191.69.245/~onliscn/epassporte.htm

[Cleo]

Yeah me too

[Jim]

Yep, the form asks for just the right information for them to enter your account.

[Jim]

And I am getting them at email addresses that I don't use with ePassporte. Greenie has one too.. We have an email address that we both get and we received one of these to it.

[Cleo]

I get them for bank accounts that I have and don't have, Amazon accounts, credit card accounts, Etrade account, pretty much everything and anything. It's really fucked up.

[Surfn]

Originally Posted by Cleo

I get them for bank accounts that I have and don't have, Amazon accounts, credit card accounts, Etrade account, pretty much everything and anything. It's really fucked up.

Same here. You name it and I get phishing emails for them. I use to try to contact the various places to give them the ammunition to shut the senders down. Obviously they either don't care or figure it goes with territory because I know other people who have reported these cheats.

Now I just click "report as spam" to my spam filters.

[Jim]

Originally Posted by Cleo

I get them for bank accounts that I have and don't have, Amazon accounts, credit card accounts, Etrade account, pretty much everything and anything. It's really fucked up.

Me too but these were the first ePassporte scam. For me anyway.

[Keyser Soze]

I haven't recieved it yet.

There were a some phising mails 6 months or so ago and ePassporte had the domains shut down with 15 minutes of them being notified about it.

[lassiter]

Originally Posted by Jim

Are you guys getting the scam emails regarding ePassporte like the ones we get about paypal?

The key giveaway in most of these cases is the clickable link. Most of the big players who have been victims of phishing scams (eBay, Amazon, PayPal, etc.) will no longer send emails with clickable links. Instead, the legitimate emails will simply tell you to log into your account to deal with any alleged problem. Amazon still sends merchandise offers with clickable links, but any type of accounting or customer service issue is now usually free of actual clickable links.

So the basic rule is: if it offers to send you to the site via a clickable link, it's automatically a bogus phishing scam. I hope that ePassporte adopts this rule if it hasn't already.

[cd34]

I filled in the form, now I can't get into my account.

So, don't fill it out. It doesn't work.

[Keyser Soze]

This is the reply from Chris Mallick about this:

Originally Posted by Chris Mallick

These phishing attempts are increasing for every product or service or bank in the world. We do not EVER email you outside of ePassporte, except when you set up a new account, then just once.

If you ever get an email from ePassporte outside of your ePassporte email, do not reply.

C

[magicmike]

Haven't gotten one of those for epassporte yet. Is that a sign that they've become really big.

[Linkster]

Keyser - thats the important part and the best part about Epassporte - they will NEVER email you except within their system in your account - never to your outside email addy

[tickler]

Originally Posted by Keyser Soze

There were a some phising mails 6 months or so ago and ePassporte had the domains shut down with 15 minutes of them being notified about it.

Interesting article:
Pump-and-dump spam domains go silent after botnet closure
"Spammers register pump-and-dump spam domains for use in spam runs. These domains are commonly discarded after a few days. "

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11...m_domain_dump/

[pimpmaster]

still didn't get it, but thx a lot guys.. good to know...

[MrYum]

Haven't seen the one for epass yet, but tons of others.

Yep, never fill out anything in an email that requires important information. Far too many scammers and cheats out there...cocksuckers

[Vivaldi]

Hi all! I've received similar mail around March this Year (with the url & form & everything just slightly different text) & I wasn't lazy so without clicking to URL I call them to ask what the heck it's all about!? Strange thing was that I've received same mail to my epass acc. & private mail used only for epass.

To keep a long story short it was a spam scam that's out for Your username & pass so I'm thinking this may be the same thing here.

So watch out for that!!!

oh forgot to say: if You by any chance use & fill out the form make the call to epass center & let them change Your password just in case.

[Kenny B!]

Suprisingly I haven't gotten it yet, I'm sure I will soon though.

Thanks for the heads up.

[kandah]

I get them too.

[Papa]

Log into your epassporte account. You'll see a message about it before seeing your cash and stuff