| User | Thread poster: George Trail Scam warning (this is a smart one!) |
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George Trail 
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:39
 Member (2009)
French to English
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This is actually a convincing scam - watch out!
"The following information involves the ACH transaction that was originally sent by you or any other person on 02-06-2012.
Transaction ID:
6094315163578
Status of the transaction: suspended
Supplementary information: Please refer to the [detailed report]*
Sincerely,
Violette Coirs.
2012 NACHA - The Electronic Payments Association
This is a system generated email. Please do not respond."
The text of "detailed report" is a link.
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Barbara Carrara
Italy
Local time: 03:39
 Member (2008)
English to Italian
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| | Convincing? Quite the opposite! | Feb 8 |
I find it rather scam-vincing myself...
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 03:39
Member (2007)
Spanish to English
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Barbara Carrara wrote:
I find it rather scam-vincing myself... |
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Me too, I wouldn't go near any emails claiming to be about something "that was originally sent by me OR ANY OTHER PERSON..." when it's obviously something I've never heard of.
[Edited at 2012-02-08 10:19 GMT]
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 03:39
Member (2009)
English to German
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Barbara Carrara wrote:
I find it rather scam-vincing myself... |
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The content of this email is so vague that the subject line should actually be: SCAM FOR YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON! (yes, in caps)
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George Trail
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:39
Member (2009)
French to English
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Thayenga, are you trying to make me look stupid? Obviously it was never going to convince me personally (not least because I don't even use ACH, whatever that is). But it could be a different story if you worked in a big company or something. Mind you, I do accept that it doesn't even provide any details of the value of the transaction - because it's not for me personally, is it? It's for everyone who might fall for it, including you!
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Tomás Cano Binder, CT
Spain
Local time: 03:39
Member (2005)
English to Spanish
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"by you or any other person"... There you go! No identifiable information, the first sign that something is not right!
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 03:39
Member (2009)
English to German
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George Trail wrote:
Thayenga, are you trying to make me look stupid? Obviously it was never going to convince me personally (not least because I don't even use ACH, whatever that is). But it could be a different story if you worked in a big company or something. Mind you, I do accept that it doesn't even provide any details of the value of the transaction - because it's not for me personally, is it? It's for everyone who might fall for it, including you! |
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Hi George,
my apologies if it came across like this to you. It has not been and still is not my intention to make you - or anybody else, for that matter - look stupid or appear in any negative way.
Yet, even if someone works for said company, the scam is obvious simply because no company would send you an alert containing the words (send by you) "or any other person".
If their email was legitimate, then they would
1. address you by your name
2. leave out the "or any other person/anybody else" phrase
3. deprive you of the opportunity to reply to that email
and it would not be a machine generated email.
Sincerely,
Thayenga
[Edited at 2012-02-08 12:43 GMT]
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Mike Sadler
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:39
Member (2011)
Spanish to English
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| | Many thanks, George | Feb 8 |
You've done what I should have done, George, by bringing it to colleagues' attention.
I actually fell for this. I was having trouble with a transaction and this came in the middle of the correspondence, which was also in the middle of going all out to meet a translation deadline.
Even though I'm normally über-cautious and would never normally be caught by something like this, on that day and in those circumstances, I clicked where I shouldn't have.
As soon as I clicked I realised what I'd done, to my horror, and then spent the next X hours finding and removing the malware I'd just invited into my computer. It was a scary moment.
All OK now, I'm glad to say - but thanks again for your original post.
Mike
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Marina Steinbach
United States
Local time: 21:39
Member (2011)
English to German
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| | Thank you very much for warning us. | Feb 9 |
George Trail wrote:
This is actually a convincing scam - watch out!
"The following information involves the ACH transaction that was originally sent by you or any other person on 02-06-2012.
Transaction ID:
6094315163578
Status of the transaction: suspended
Supplementary information: Please refer to the [detailed report]*
Sincerely,
Violette Coirs.
2012 NACHA - The Electronic Payments Association
This is a system generated email. Please do not respond."
The text of "detailed report" is a link. |
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Thank you very much for warning us, George.
Marina
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Verbos inc
Canada
Local time: 21:39
Member
English to French
| | I received that scam too | Feb 12 |
A few of my tricks (for everyone's benefit; some you already know, I suppose):
I went to check the website of the organization Electronic Payments Association and, lo and behold, there is a warning https://www.nacha.org/node/983.
Also, if you use Outlook, you can right-click on an email in your Inbox and select Options (in my XP version it is the very last one). You will then see the full headers. You will often find out that way that the domain the message comes from has nothing to do with the purported organization. The headers are often required of you want to file a complaint. You can copy-paste them.
Nowadays, when I get an email, I always assume it is a phishing attempt until I have verified it is bona fide. Paranoid? Maybe. But my PC does not get infected often and so far I have been lucky, I did not get caught in a scam.
The best security measure is called Delete.
I also use the Display feature in Outlook to see what is in the email without opening it. It they are asking you to open an attachment, alarm bells should go off. The old UPS virus is still circulating...).
Hovering your mouse over a link WITHOUT CLICKING is another way to see if the domain name apprears to be bona fide.
Just take a sentence of the email and put it in Google. Sometimes results are surprising.
[Modifié le 2012-02-12 20:58 GMT]
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