[Novalug] Spam or Worse?

[Ken Kauffman]

I've been getting a bunch of very realistic Bank of America phishing
attempts.  Look at the source of the E-mail for the hyper links.  The
phishing attempts are very convincing, but don't fall for them.

 

If you're concerned that credit is being opened in your name:

1)      Get a credit history

2)      Write the credit agencies  to put a credit freeze on your accounts.
This prevents any credit from being opened.  They don't want you to know
this exists because then they can't sell you the "Identity Theft Protection"
stuff.  If you do this, remember that it prevents you from opening accounts
as well until you unfreeze it.

 

Ken

 

From: novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org
[mailto:novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org] On Behalf Of Mike Mellor
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 12:20 PM
To: Novalug
Subject: [Novalug] Spam or Worse?

 

I've been getting a lot of e-mail from a web site that I never visited.  It
started out with a "Welcome to X" e-mail.  Since then, I have gotten almost
daily messages from that site saying that credit has been added to my
account, then "corresponding" e-mails from a credit site (which has the same
host) saying that "credit has been approved", or sometimes that the credit
didn't go through.  I've checked all of my credit cards, and nothing is
happening there.  Today I got a response to an e-mail that supposedly came
from my account (not my name).  As far as I can tell, the site only has my
address, no personal information (the name they list is not my name).  So,
I've been  tagging it as spam in GMail and ignoring it. 

So, after all of that, the questions are:
Is this just some elaborate spam?
Could my e-mail account be compromised?
Should I contact the site (I have never replied to any message)?
Should I prepare to abandon this e-mail account? 

TIA

Mike

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