Phishing Scam attacks MobileMe August 12, 2008

.Mac, the service that Apple replaced with MobileMe was just attacked with phishing scams.  The email looks like an official communication from Apple regarding MobileMe, the company’s subscription service that provides users with a personal e-mail address, Web hosting, file sharing capabilities, and online data synchronization between Macs, iPhones, and other devices. The e-mail states: “We were unable to process your most recent payment. Did you recently change your bank, phone number or credit card?” Users are then invited to click on a link to enter that information—but that link opens a Web page in your browser that does not appear to be affiliated with Apple or MobileMe (the other links in the e-mail do point to pages on Apple’s official Web site).

It is supposedly tracked back through a Gmail account but who it belongs to is a mystery.  This is nothing new.  Phishers are usually one step ahead.

The Scambaiter July 18, 2008

I found this website the other day and I was LMAO, ROFL, or RTTBRBIAPIMP (Ran To The Bathroom Because I Almost Peed In My Pants).  OK – I made that one up.  But The ScamBaiter website is hee-larious!  On their home page is a corney song/video that they amateurishly made – and inside, you will see pix of the overseas scammers (some really explicit so fair warning – it’s NSFW!). The people who gathered these pictures responded to their emails and wrote, “If you really are real – please send me a photo with you doing ______________.”  Here is a picture of things you will see on this site:

And their “passports” – WOW – awesome photoshopping skillz!

Yes, it’s mean and degrading but hearing crazy stories about people being scammed is also sad.