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Geek Culture / Phishing scam avenged - my true story

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Jeku
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Posted: 5th Apr 2005 15:18
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I'm fed up with phishing scams.

For those of you who don't know, a phishing scam is an email you receive, supposedly from eBay, Paypal, your bank, or anyone else that may have your secret credit card information. The con man/woman basically sends out mass emails, and the emails look like they belong from a real company. They give some reason for you to sign in and update your card information. The link in the email even looks real. When you click the link, even the website looks real!

However if you notice the URL on the top of your browser, and it isn't who you thought it was, then the email was sent by a phisher.

I'm fed up with them. I've received two now in the last 20 hours! I usually just report them to eBay (or whoever) then junk them, but I don't think that really does anything. Recently I've taken it upon myself to do a little domain name search to see who the webhost of the bad domain names is. This morning the first one was from some guy in Amsterdam--- probably not a whole lot I can do about that.

Then one just came in about an hour ago. I checked register.com and bam! The site is being hosted by an American webhost. After a nice chat with on of their host operators, I managed to have the jerkoff's site permanently removed from the system

This was a great feeling and I thought I'd share it with you all. If you ever feel defenseless from the con men and women who bombard your inbox daily with fraud, you can be a good samaritan and actually do something about it


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Dave J
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Posted: 5th Apr 2005 15:24
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Yeah, I usually get quite a few PayPal ones that I report (and they reply confirming they're fake) but I don't think PayPal ever does anything about it. But good job on shutting down one fraud... at least for a while, anyway.


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Jess T
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Posted: 5th Apr 2005 17:03
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Haha, GJ Jeku

Can't say I've ever gotten one of them, before
However, I can see my mother or her husband falling for one. Oh well.

Jess.


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BatVink
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Posted: 5th Apr 2005 17:12
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Let's hope it was his site, and not somebody else's space he'd hacked! Even if it was, it needed shutting down until it was sorted anyway.

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Posted: 5th Apr 2005 17:37
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Nice Never happened to me, but I know my family (excluding my dad) would fall for it..


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Foxy
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Posted: 5th Apr 2005 17:48
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Sweet. We get shirtloads of them ('cos me and my dad use ebay, paypal and all of them sorts of things). I can remember not long back we got one from the 'Washington Mutual Bank' or something, rather strange considering we dont even live in the states.

Gaming resources.

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Jimmy
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Posted: 6th Apr 2005 03:10
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I've sent one of those before.


It worked.


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Ian T
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Posted: 6th Apr 2005 03:51
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Congrats Jeku, that's civil action alright

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Ace Of Spades
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Posted: 6th Apr 2005 04:27
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Quote: " I've sent one of those before.


It worked."


...and im still seeking revenge for that
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Jeku
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Posted: 6th Apr 2005 05:08
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Quote: " Let's hope it was his site, and not somebody else's space he'd hacked!"


Well considering the URL subdomain was 'updates-your-records' I'm not particularly worried about that

Thanks for the support, guys. I'm so mad that the first guy is from Amsterdam (and not in north america) that I've set up a gmail account and just sent him an email. I looked at the domain records and I know his name--- after searching Google I have found that he's a real movie buff. I would like to scare him into shutting down the fraud section of his site


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Jimmy
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Posted: 6th Apr 2005 05:23
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Quote: "Quote: " I've sent one of those before.


It worked."

...and im still seeking revenge for that"


That's funny, because it really was you.


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Jeku
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Posted: 6th Apr 2005 05:41 Edited at: 6th Apr 2005 07:56
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I can't believe it! I *just* got another one from "PayPal". This URL is an IP address, though. Anyone know how I can find out how his host is?

EDIT:

Found a great place where you can type in an IP or hostname and it lists all the contact details for the host. Grrooovvvyyy... although I'm sad because my newest phisher is based in Korea

http://www.antifraud.com/ipcheck.htm


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Posted: 6th Apr 2005 06:03 Edited at: 6th Apr 2005 06:05
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IP:


Quote: "
Thought of a great name for your site?
www.


192.168.0.1 (IP Address)

OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgID: IANA
Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
City: Marina del Rey
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90292-6695
Country: US"


Now I must go to their location and tell them they do not own the ultimate router IP!

[EDIT] hmm...no match for ANY of my site
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Posted: 6th Apr 2005 07:37
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Jeku you can write tracert IP in the command prompt and it should tell you the domain


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