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Dr. Dan wants to buy Real Estate (Phishing)

We're paid to be paranoid here at Managed Solutions. When this message arrived in my inbox today it was a rarity. Rare because it is one of very few phishing Emails that have bypassed my anti-spam mechanisms. Phishing is a process by which a criminal pretends to be a legitimate entity in an effort to gain passwords, identity, bank account or other private data. Here is the text of the message: I am interested in purchasing a private residence in your country or in any country you are well-acq...

Anatomy of a Phishing Email

I encountered a great opportunity this evening, the opportunity to share an inside look of a Phishing Email. What is Phishing? "In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication." - Wikipedia What I noticed was an Email purportedly from Bank of America telling me that there was an "Accoun...

ADP Warns of Phishing Emails to Payroll Clients

We were made aware of an issue that ADP is reporting with some of their Payroll customers. Here is the text of the warning message they are sending their clients: "ADP is receiving reports of a phishing email scam targeting ADP EasyPayNet clients who perform their payroll via the Internet.  Phishing email scams are designed to mimic legitimate websites and are intended to compromise your login credentials.  The email is fraudulent and did not come from ADP.  Please immediately delete the emai...

Warning Facebook Phishing Email

Today I noticed a peculiar Email message from Facebook in my Quarantine. A quick investigation confirmed what I had suspected, it was a phishing attempt to compromise my Facebook account or other personal information. This video demonstrates what this message looked like and how the URL in the link gave away that it was not Facebook but in fact a .me.uk address:

Phisher Shutdown

This morning I happened to get a Phishing message from the contact form on this website. It was carefully crafted and was devised to obtain routing and bank information to most certainly relieve us of any and all funds in the account. When I went to investigate the site, I quickly learned that it had already been removed from the dns records of the hosting provider - precisely what I had intended to inform them of. Someone had already reacted to this would be phisher and stopped them in their tr...