Oh, Phishy Phishy Phish. Oh Phish, Oh Phishy, Oh. He was a most elusive Phish, and he went wherever I did go

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Wednesday, October 11. 2006

Oh, Phishy Phishy Phish. Oh Phish, Oh Phishy, Oh. He was a most elusive Phish, and he went wherever I did go

I received this email this morning:

Dear Client,

This message has been sent automatically by the Visa Security Program to this e-mail address specified during your credit card online transaction. For safety reasons your credit card details are not shown in this message.

ALERT

Your level of credit card authorization has been automatically modified during your last onlinetransaction of GBP 245.72 to increase your account security. The charge for this service is GBP 29.00.  Please confirm or cancel this operation through Visa Online Administration Panel.

It is strongly recommended for you to increase your account security, as we could not identify the user during the last transaction. For further details on the transaction please see the attachment. If you believe this has been the case of unauthorized use of your credit card please report this immediately to Verified by Visa and protect your Visa card online with a personal password. Visa provides reassurance that only you can use your Visa card online.

I'm getting sick of these phishing scams. As if Visa are really going to increase my card limit for security purposes. And charge me for doing so. And address me as "Dear client" instead of my name. And state that they could not identify the user in the last transaction. And include a zip file as an attachment that they advise I open. Grrr

Posted by Rich in Rant at 07:23 | Comments (5)
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Gold star for the 'Meaning of Life' reference :-)
#1 Stu (Homepage) on 2006-10-11 09:28 (Reply)
I get these virtually every day and long to get my hands on the people who send them.
#2 Lois (Homepage) on 2006-10-11 09:43 (Reply)
Oh! Is that not real then?
#3 elo15e (Homepage) on 2006-10-11 10:43 (Reply)
Forward it to visa. They love it!
#4 lordhutton on 2006-10-11 11:27 (Reply)
I've had similar e-mails from Visa, Lloyds-TSB, HSBC, eBay and American Express.

It's a shame I don't have accounts with any of them.

Also, I can't seem to run the .exe attachments that are in these zip files they keep sending, my Mac doesn't understand the format.
#5 jeremyp really on 2006-10-11 14:18 (Reply)
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