FALSE Slingshot Email Sent By Scam Bastards Trying To Get details Of Peoples Accounts
E. Scrooge
search of the IP code showed that it's been involved with all kinds of scams
including the Nigeria scams. The email below is nothing like a genuine
email that the Slingshot Team send to their customers.
Dear valued customer,
This message is from our SLINGSHOT webmail Messaging Center to all our
account
owners.We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail center. We are
deleting all unused SLINGSHOT webmail account to Create more space for new
accounts.
In other not to be suspended or experience service interruption during this
period you must confirm your SLINGSHOT webmail account details by providing
the following:
1.Email ID:.......................................
2.Password:(***********)
3.Date of Birth:...............................
You will be sent a new confirmation alphanumerical password so that it will
only be valid during this period and can be changed after the process. We
are
very sorry for the inconvenience this may have cost you. Thanks for your
understanding SLINGSHOT webmail Administrator.
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within
seven days of receiving this notice end up being
suspended permanently.
********
Other Slingsnot users should not be fooled by the above email.
E. Scrooge
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peterwn
wrote:
> This bullshit email arriuved this morning claiming to be from Slingshot. A
> search of the IP code showed that it's been involved with all kinds of scams
> including the Nigeria scams. The email below is nothing like a genuine
> email that the Slingshot Team send to their customers.
>
So what is new? Paradise users have been continually plastered with
this sort of thing for months - several times a week, and TelstraClear
seemed to be uninterested in trying to filter it out. Come to think
of it, none has arrived for the last few days, perhaps they have moved
to spamming Slingshot users.
Mr Davis
Wow, thanks for the warning! How far behind things are you?
This one, ascribed to a multidue od ISPs, has been floating around for
yonks.
Next you'll be advising us of the invention of the wheel.
Thicko.
thing2
There a lot of these going about, everything from ISPs to companies....I
suspect it looks like someone has trawled about and is now sending these
to everyone they can....
Google a[db]word is another one they are going for (I assume so they can
get trojans distributed via google)....its the run up to xmas so they
need smtp servers by the tonne....
regards
thing
Dave Doe
says...
Yeah yeah, move on, and while yer at it, get used to it. LOL
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Duncan
BrentC
wrote:
hey scrooge - where did you get this stalker from?
Allistar
Or maybe TelstraClear having started filtering them out :-)
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A.
I Love It!
>> Wow, thanks for the warning! How far behind things are you?
>>
>> This one, ascribed to a multidue od ISPs, has been floating
>> around
>> for yonks.
>>
>> Next you'll be advising us of the invention of the wheel.
>>
>> Thicko.
>
>
>
> hey scrooge - where did you get this stalker from?
It's Helen's, ahem, "husband"! ROFL
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E. Scrooge
"Mr Davis" <mr.d...@cromwell.st> wrote in message
news:un2df4p5s1463d8r9...@4ax.com...
Very doubtful your wheel idea will ever come to much.
It was the first time I've seen the scam and haven't seen any mention of it
before.
E. Scrooge
"BrentC" <b@b.b> wrote in message
news:dk6df4dkh5ss6lfdh...@4ax.com...
Sounds like Clark's partner in crime Peter. Probably has a chip or 2 on his
shoulder. Clark can have the fool back.
E. Scrooge
"I Love It!" <ilo...@3wordcommiekiller.com> wrote in message
news:GKqdnQur7O48KWvV...@giganews.com...
> BrentC wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:34:43 +1300, Mr Davis <mr.d...@cromwell.st>
>
>
>>> Wow, thanks for the warning! How far behind things are you?
>>>
>>> This one, ascribed to a multidue od ISPs, has been floating around
>>> for yonks.
>>>
>>> Next you'll be advising us of the invention of the wheel.
>>>
>>> Thicko.
>>
>>
>>
>> hey scrooge - where did you get this stalker from?
>
> It's Helen's, ahem, "husband"! ROFL
That makes 2 of us that have figured it out.
;-)
I only saw your reply after sending my reply in to Brent.
E. Scrooge
"thing2" <thi...@nowhere.commy> wrote in message
news:7bgis5-...@news.vuw.ac.nz...
A search of this address 80.255.59.245 found all kinds of scams relating to
it. It's the first time I've had anything like it arrive in an email
claiming to be from an ISP.
E. Scrooge
"Dave Doe" <ha...@work.ok> wrote in message
news:MPG.23615dc01...@news.paradise.net.nz...
Guess that means that you're going to be sending a lot more of them,
Drunkan.
Enkidu
>
> So what is new? Paradise users have been continually plastered with
> this sort of thing for months - several times a week, and TelstraClear
> seemed to be uninterested in trying to filter it out. Come to think
> of it, none has arrived for the last few days, perhaps they have moved
> to spamming Slingshot users.
>
haven't been able to figure out why!
Cheers,
Cliff
--
Tax is not theft.
Enkidu
> to it. It's the first time I've had anything like it arrive in an email
> claiming to be from an ISP.
>
their website for a while, but I see that it has now gone.
Enkidu
peterwn
Did you mark the first one as spam? If so the others would go the
same way.
Enkidu
b) It depends totally on the mail setup one has and one's ISP's mail setup.
thingy
yep, Paradise, Clear all over....I even get them from the "IT admin" of
the company I work for claiming the "admin" needs my password etc
etc....which is interesting as Im one of the admins...
LOL
They seem to be particulary interested in webmail interfaces, they
briefly got into one of ours (only a few users replied, not too bad from
25,000+)....I assume they have written programs to interface with the
webmail / web browser to send spam en-masse....they were doing it every
20~40mins like clockwork...
That IP address is nigeria....what a surprise....
regards
Thing
SupergoofNZ
Really? We're with Paradise and I haven't had any make it through.
There's some scam artists trying to con people by phone in the Kapiti -
Wellington area according to the radio. They try to get people's credit
card details to pay for some cheap airfare to Australia.
I'm fairly sure they called us last night - some indian woman phoned at
9.30pm (the time being the first indication that they weren't legit).
Fortunately hubby gave them the short shrift.
Rachel
Robin Halligan
More likely the isp is marking it as spam because it is going out to lots
and lots of accounts.