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  • AyeGuy
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2006
    • 909

    Phishing scam?

    Within a few minutes I got e-mails from Sierra Trading Post, Drugstore.com, and Victoria's Secret with "order confirmations". Deliver To and Bill To adresses were different from mine, as were the names on the orders, but the e-mail adress was mine. Sierra is the only company I've dealt with before. Was I supposed to say WTF and click on the links in the e-mails and get a virus or something?
  • #2
    Librarian
    Admin and Poltergeist
    CGN Contributor - Lifetime
    • Oct 2005
    • 44654

    Checked your current credit card charges? Might be real orders with a stolen card number.
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    Frozen in 2015, it is falling out of date and I can no longer edit the content. But much of it is still good!

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    • #3
      Merc1138
      I need a LIFE!!
      • Feb 2009
      • 19742

      Check your credit card statements, and yes I've received spam like that before wanting you to click the links(just hover your mouse cursor over them and see what the URLs actually are).

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      • #4
        AyeGuy
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2006
        • 909

        Just checked, and no charges.

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        • #5
          Merc1138
          I need a LIFE!!
          • Feb 2009
          • 19742

          Originally posted by AyeGuy
          Just checked, and no charges.
          You need to keep an eye on it for a few days.

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          • #6
            AyeGuy
            Senior Member
            • Jan 2006
            • 909

            Originally posted by Merc1138
            (just hover your mouse cursor over them and see what the URLs actually are).
            I get stuff like:

            edf.sierratradingpost.com

            email.sierratradingpost.com

            e.victoriasecret.com

            secure.victoriasecret.com

            The drugstore.com URLs are straight, without an extra letter in front of the domain name.

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            • #7
              Merc1138
              I need a LIFE!!
              • Feb 2009
              • 19742

              Originally posted by AyeGuy
              I get stuff like:

              edf.sierratradingpost.com

              email.sierratradingpost.com

              e.victoriasecret.com

              secure.victoriasecret.com

              The drugstore.com URLs are straight, without an extra letter in front of the domain name.
              Nothing weird like edf.sierratradingpost.com.russian.phishingscamsite .com.longspamurl.so.it.gets.truncated.to.not.showt hewhole.thing.ru/?givemeyourcreditcardinfo.php/here.is.theurlagain.edf.sierratradingpost.com ?

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              • #8
                uhlan1
                Calguns Addict
                • Aug 2012
                • 6217

                Don't open any of those links!
                "Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished." - Niccolo Machiavelli

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                • #9
                  dinkydau
                  Member
                  • Oct 2011
                  • 394

                  same thing happened to me about 2yrs ago. I was getting emails from a friend, but under the subject matter was(no subject). I knew my friend always put a subject. I did open it up the first time and it was an ad for male enhancing drugs!! the next time i got those I just deleted them. I did get them from other people time to time and just deleted them. If I sent it to spam then if they DID send an actual email, it would then go to my spam.
                  also it happened to me as the sender the other way too.
                  Just delete them.

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                  • #10
                    AyeGuy
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2006
                    • 909

                    Thanks, I didn't open any links. But is my email compromised now? Can anything bad come from these phishers having it?

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                    • #11
                      Merc1138
                      I need a LIFE!!
                      • Feb 2009
                      • 19742

                      Originally posted by AyeGuy
                      Thanks, I didn't open any links. But is my email compromised now? Can anything bad come from these phishers having it?
                      No, just means you'll keep getting spam. There's nothing "compromised" about spammers having your email address.

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