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image Is it PayPal or Heritage Bank? image
Identity Theft
I just received a phish spam email from what the criminal claims is the PayPal Service Center, yet its for an FDIC Insured Heritage Bank knockoff. Here is the image.
Posted on Wednesday, 25 April 2007 @ 22:43:51 UTC by Paul (3456 reads)
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Re: Is it PayPal or Heritage Bank? (Score: 1)
by thegeezer  on Thursday, 26 April 2007 @ 06:07:54 UTC
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I've received some pretty dumb attemps but that one is a bit surprising. Which makes me wonder. Is there any estimate or stats on how many people actually respond to phishing emails?



Re: Is it PayPal or Heritage Bank? (Score: 1)
by closets  on Tuesday, 01 May 2007 @ 12:51:32 UTC
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Appearently more people respond than you would think, if their successful scams amount to billions.


 
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