WEBMAIL UPGRADE / Webmail Phish

Notice the void of any personal information, your name, your account, your details, which webmail program / company, what url or anything, totally vague assuming you have a webmail account somewhere. This is a total phish for details, information, passwords, etc.. avoid all emails like this and never click on links from emails you are not 100% sure are real and accurate.

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Dear Account User,

WEBMAIL UPGRADE:

This Email is from the Customer Care service of your webmail provider and we are sending it to all our webmail Account User for safety. We are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of webmail accounts; so we are shutting down some webmail accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. We are sending you this email so that you verify and let us know if you still want to use this account and if you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.

Re-state your details so that we can confirm and upgrade your account as soon as possible.

Your Username, password, date of birth and your country information would be needed to verify your account.

* Username:
* Password:
* Date of Birth:
* Country or Territory:

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Contact: John Cater
Email: webmailusers@mail2webmaster.com

All you have to do is Click Reply and supply the information above and your account shall not be interrupted and will continue to function normally.

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her webmail account permanently.

Thanks for your attention to this request and we apologize for any inconveniences.

Scam Emails : FW: Your Notice by maxwell.bill3@gmail.com

This email below, turns into the scam below that.

-----Original Message-----
From: Email [mailto:maxwell.bill3@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:32 PM
Subject: Your Notice

Due to our large network of customers...we require assistance on some very
important issues.We are looking for Regional Representative thats: - Very
sharp and a quick learner. - A go-getter and non quitter. - Strong minded
with great communication skills. - Long term friend thats interested in
learning from the company skills and experience. This will be for a part
time job. You will mainly be helping with finance, accounting and recording
of sales and keeping records online. Let me know if you need to know more
about this opportunity... Interested candidate should contact us for further
details about the position.

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Dalston Mill Fabrics
69-73 Ridley Road
Dalston, London
E8 3NP
website: http://www.dalstonmillfabrics.co.uk

Would you like to work online from home or office and get paid immediately?
Dalston Mill Fabrics was established in 1982. Our company, Dalston Mill
Fabrics has a long history of supplying fabrics for prestigious,
international 5-star hotels such as (The Lanes borough, The Bristol,
Peninsula Beverly Hills, Four Seasons Hotels and Ritz Carlton Hotels).

We have since strive to become a reliable and varied stockist of low cost
and high quality fabric products from all over the World. Our company
Dalston Mill Fabrics, is a company based in United Kingdom, and we are
specialist in textile and fabric materials such as Silk Dupion, Dress net,
Cationic Satin, Silk, Organza, Organza, Sequin, CrepeBack, Satin, Organdy
with Bead, Duchess Satin, Tulle with Sequin, Embroidery, Cationic Yorgo
Chiffon Georgette, Crushed Velor.

The international money transfer tax for legal entities (companies) in U.K
is 25%, whereas for the individual it is only 7%.

There is no sense for us to work this way, while tax for international money
transfer made by a private individual is 7%. That's why we need you! We need
agents to receive payment for our Fabrics order (in Money Orders, Check or
Wire transfers) from our clients in the US and to send the money to our
affiliates via Money Gram or Western Union Money Transfer. This brings our
quest to employ credible and trustworthy individuals as our representatives
to handle our transactions. Due to high demand and usage of our products in
United States, Canada and United Kingdom and around the world coupled with
our strategies to fit each individual market segment, we are advertising for
the position of representatives within the United States and Canada.

Please indicate if you are interested and reply to (maxwell.bill3@gmail.com)
promptly with the following Requirements:

* 18 years or older
* Must be trustworthy and have the ability to communicate well in English
language.
* Reliable and honest.
* Responsible and have no Criminal Record.
* Ready to work 10-15 Hours Per Week.
* E-mail and internet experience (minimal)

Thanks for your time and anticipation to work with Dalston Mill Fabrics.

Best Regards,
Max Bill
Recruitment Manager.
+447045766456.

Gartner Group Reports: Phishing Attacks 2007, Over $3 Billion Lost

Phishing attacks in the United States soared in 2007 as $3.2 billion was lost to these attacks, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that 3.6 million adults lost money in phishing attacks in the 12 months ending in August 2007, as compared with the 2.3 million who did so the year before.

According to a survey of more than 4,500 online U.S. adults in August 2007 (which was representative of the online U.S. adult population) the attacks were more successful in 2007 than they were in the previous two years. Of consumers who received phishing e-mails in 2007, 3.3 percent say they lost money because of the attack, compared with 2.3 percent who lost money in 2006, and 2.9 percent who did so in 2005, according to similar Gartner surveys during those years.

The average dollar loss per incident declined to $886 from $1,244 lost on average in 2006 (with a median loss of $200 in 2007), but because there were more victims, $3.2 billion was lost to phishing in 2007, according to surveyed consumers. There was a bit of relative good news, however; the amounts that consumers were able to recover also increased. Some 1.6 million adults recovered about 64 percent of their losses in 2007, up from the 54 percent that 1.5 million adults recovered in 2006.

PayPal and eBay continue to be the most-spoofed brands, but phishing attacks increasingly employ devious social engineering attacks, impersonating, for example, electronic greeting cards, charities and foreign businesses.

Thieves are increasingly stealing debit card and other bank account credentials to rob accounts — targeting areas where fraud detection is weaker than it is with credit card accounts. According to the survey, of those consumers who lost money to phishing attacks, 47 percent said a debit or check card had been the payment method used when they lost money or had unauthorized charges made on their accounts. This was followed by 32 percent of respondents who listed a credit card as the payment method, and 24 percent who listed a bank account as the method (multiple responses were allowed).

Phishing and malware attacks will continue to increase through 2009 because it's still a lucrative business for the perpetrators, and advertising networks will be used to deliver up to 30 percent of malware that lands on consumer desktops.

Gartner sees no easy way out of this dilemma unless e-mail providers have incentives to invest in solutions to keep phishing e-mails from reaching consumers in the first place, and unless advertising networks and other "infection point" providers (which theoretically can be any legitimate Web site or service) have incentives to keep malware from being planted on their Web sites to reach unsuspecting consumers.