PayPal email, BEWARE.

Marc Swanson mswanson at sonitrol.net
Thu Nov 20 12:05:17 EST 2003


> My suspicions arise from the use of the word "informations" in the email.
>  This seems to be a common error in the Nigerian 419 letters too.


probably a scam.  Just got an email claiming to be from
"security at fleet.com" saying that I need to update my security
information.

Too bad the link goes to "www.fleet-security.com" and furthermore I have
no accounts with fleet bank......


traceroute is your friend on this one:

[root at wsmis3 root]# traceroute fleet-security.com
traceroute to fleet-security.com (202.63.201.242), 30 hops max, 38 byte
packets
<snipped irrelevant hops>

16  202.125.128.160 (202.125.128.160)  304.626 ms  307.684 ms  307.415
ms
17  202.125.131.174 (202.125.131.174)  441.952 ms  328.613 ms  356.989
ms
18  backup.cubexs.net.pk (202.63.192.7)  334.089 ms  360.426 ms  409.590
ms
19  202.63.201.242 (202.63.201.242)  317.027 ms  390.967 ms  361.022 ms



".pk" == Pakistan


Be careful out there folks.

--
-Marc
87' 4ktq
88' 90q
www.mswanson.com/audi




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