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URGENT - Possible email fraud/scam?

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Old 31 July 2003, 08:31 AM
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Anyone ever heard of an organisation called "Send Money Now"?

Received an email purporting to be notification of an incoming fund transfer from "a friend" I have never heard of, using this service, which I have also never heard.

Clicking on the hyperlink in the message takes you to a non-secure "registration" page, asking for Name, Address, and credit card details etc., to register an account before withdrawing funds. The page looks authentic, until you click on any of the other links, all of which do nothing.

I have checked the domain name - it was registered yesterday (30th July)

Old 31 July 2003, 08:51 AM
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IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE !!!!!!!!!
Old 31 July 2003, 09:01 AM
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Are you telling me to ignore the email, or flaming me for posting it?

Do you have any justification for either?

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Old 31 July 2003, 09:21 AM
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Figment PLEASE Tell me you haven't filled that registration form in. It is SO OBVIOUSLY a Scam.

Haven't you read all the press about these things
Old 31 July 2003, 09:27 AM
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jods.

OK, I will tell you - I haven't filled in the registration form. There, happy now?

Seriously though, I guessed it was a scam as soon as I looked at the email, but it, and the web page "look" authentic enough until you look beyond the veneer.

I've seen similar attempts at ID theft using Paypal etc., but never this one, and being as the mail was addressed to a company email address it could quite easily have been a legitimate message.
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Sorry mate, should've made it more clearer...

IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE the e-mail.
Don't fill it in. Someone is obviously spamming in the hope to gain personal details.
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