Email Phishing

Recently we have seen some emails being sent that are made to look like they are coming from Register4Less.com. The emails look like:

 From: "robot@r4l.com" <robot@r4l.com&rt;
 To: <support@r4l.com&rt;
 Subject: A new settings file for the support@r4l.com
 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:01:19 -0300

 Dear user of the r4l.com mailing service!
 We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (support@r4l.com) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
 http://r4l.com/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=support@r4l.com&from=r4l.com&fromname=support
 Best regards, r4l.com Technical Support.
 

These emails of course are not being sent from Register4Less.com. Do not click on any link within the email.

Our staff have already reported this phishing scam to the ISP where the emails are originating.

If you receive a notice like this, best thing is to delete it.

Webmail Phishing

In the domain of computer security, Phishing is the fraudulent process of trying to gain sensitive information such as account usernames and passwords, bank account information, credit card information and so on. Phishing is normally done by sending spam that is disguised to look like it's coming from the institution that is providing the service to the recipient of the email for which it is trying to gain account access. Phishing is a criminal offense, and should be reported to your local police department.

One example of a Phishing email one R4L customer has received is shown below. Remember, banks, Web Hosts, Email Providers, basically, anyone that provides you with an account will never send you an email asking for you to log in to your account to fix problems or to provide them your username and password. In this scenario below, if the recipient replies with their account information, then the people sending this out can log into the email account and search its messages for other sensitive data and use the account for identity theft.

        From: Dear Webmail User, [mailto:info@account.com]
        Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 1:55 PM
        To: undisclosed-recipients:
        Subject: Dear Webmail Users



        Dear Webmail User,

        This message was sent automatically by a program on Webmail which
        periodically checks the size of inboxes, where new messages are received.
        The program is runweekly to ensure no one's inbox grows too large. If your
        inbox becomes too
        large, you will be unable to receive new email. Just before this messagewas
        sent, you had 18 Megabytes (MB) or more of messages stored in your inbox
        on yourWebmail. To help us re-set your SPACE on our database prior to
        maintain yourINBOX, you must reply to this e-mail and enter your:

        Current User name: { }
        and Password: { }

        You will continue to receive this warning message periodically if your
        inboxsize continues to be between 18 and 20 MB. If your inbox size grows
        to 20 MB,then a program on Bates Webmail will move your oldest email to a
        folder in your home directory to ensure that you will continue to be able
        to receive incomingemail. You will be notified by email that this has
        taken place. If your inboxgrows to 25 MB, you will be unable to receive
        new email as it will be returned to the sender. After you read a message, 
        it is best to REPLY and SAVE a copy.

        WebMail Help Desk.