Topic: I just filed an Internet Fraud Complaint!

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

I received this Email this morning which is fishing for credit card numbers & PINs:

Now U.S. Bank Internet Banking Does Even More For You!

U.S. Bank Internet Banking - the best way to bank online - just got better! To make managing your finances more convenient, we've added this important new feature concerning access to your accounts online:

Login immediately to your account.

U.S. Bank Internet Banking lets you bank when and where you want so you can manage your finances on your schedule - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

If you have a U.S. Bank Checking or Savings Account, Credit Card or Premier Line, you can enjoy the many features and benefits of U.S. Bank Internet Banking - absolutely free.

   
 
 
U.S. Bank Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender

U.S. Bank
EP-MN-BB1R
2751 Shepard Road
St. Paul, MN 55116
 

The "Login Immediately" in a hyperlink that takes you to this web site:

http://www.usbank-secure.biz/A-1.html



So why am I telling you all this?  I dunno.  It seemed interesting.

[Gambler]

Lemme guess.  You don't have a US Bank account do you.

Unfortunately there are suckers born every minute who will fall for the scam.

[S'Raek]

I also received that e-mail.  I just deleted it.

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

Lemme guess.  You don't have a US Bank account do you.

Unfortunately there are suckers born every minute who will fall for the scam.

There is no US Bank is my guess.

[Iceman]

My dad got one.  It was addressed to a mailing list he was on. amateurs.

[jualdeaux]

I just delete them as well. I have been getting some of those "$5000 worth of stuff if you sign up for something!" Ithink it is like 4 in the last 2 days. Iritating.

[Byzantine]

Lemme guess.  You don't have a US Bank account do you.

Unfortunately there are suckers born every minute who will fall for the scam.

There is no US Bank is my guess.

U.S. Bancorp aka USBank.  I do bank there.

Good rule of thumb is never to access anything by email link unless you asked for it or expected it, i.e. PayPal email after an eBay auction or such.  It is always safest to just launch a new browser and go directly to the home site and navigate from there.  Some of the phishing is so well executed even experts don't see it without researching it.

Phishing and identity theft - things that suck bigtime and that our government and credit industry seem to be doing jacksh*t to get a handle on.

[Sethan]

Phishing and identity theft - things that suck bigtime and that our government and credit industry seem to be doing jacksh*t to get a handle on.

It isn't all that hard to fix - though it would require changing how packets are routed on the Internet.  If legitimate packets had to include a routing history and be verified against that history before they were forwarded, Emails like this could be tracked back to their origin without any problem.  Packets that could not be verified would simply be dropped at the router - and anonymous Emails dropped at the mail server. 

Legitimate packets would travel slower - but given that the vast majority of Internet traffic is spam, once that was eliminated, there should be a significant speed increase.

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

Phishing and identity theft - things that suck bigtime and that our government and credit industry seem to be doing jacksh*t to get a handle on.

It isn't all that hard to fix - though it would require changing how packets are routed on the Internet.  If legitimate packets had to include a routing history and be verified against that history before they were forwarded, Emails like this could be tracked back to their origin without any problem.  Packets that could not be verified would simply be dropped at the router - and anonymous Emails dropped at the mail server. 

Legitimate packets would travel slower - but given that the vast majority of Internet traffic is spam, once that was eliminated, there should be a significant speed increase.

{Sethan earns a + karma for brilliant simplicity...}

[S'Raek]

Phishing and identity theft - things that suck bigtime and that our government and credit industry seem to be doing jacksh*t to get a handle on.

It isn't all that hard to fix - though it would require changing how packets are routed on the Internet.  If legitimate packets had to include a routing history and be verified against that history before they were forwarded, Emails like this could be tracked back to their origin without any problem.  Packets that could not be verified would simply be dropped at the router - and anonymous Emails dropped at the mail server. 

Legitimate packets would travel slower - but given that the vast majority of Internet traffic is spam, once that was eliminated, there should be a significant speed increase.

The problem with that is you would have the privacy people up in arms about the government being able to track their e-mail around.  I think it would cause a major fire storm of public opinion.

[Redshift the Kook]

Hmmm, a US bank with a dot biz suffix? Agreed on the amateurs part.