hoax eircom email

masterwriter

This is a hoax email just in case anyone would be caught

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Greetings to you,
This is to formally notify you that we are presently working on the
eircom.net, and this can close your webmail account with
eircom.net completely.
To avoid this, please send your surname and password to eircom.net customer
care email address: web_customercentre14@live.com Please do this,so your
eircom.net account can be protected from being close.
Your immediate response is highly needed.

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Khannie

Muuaaaahahahahaha.

"Hi...can I have your credit card details please! Most urgent!"

Mad Dog

Khannie wrote: »

Muuaaaahahahahaha.

"Hi...can I have your credit card details please! Most urgent!"

And while you're at it, can I have your pin number too **** :D

masterwriter

Well some folk may have got caught

Deliverance XXV

I have received two Eircom related phishing emails in the last six months, I have since forwarded them on to Eircom.

Yeah, I definitely could see some elderly person falling for that. Despite the Hotmail reply-to email address.

masterwriter

King Nothing wrote: »

Despite the Hotmail reply-to email address.

How can you tell it is hotmail address when it is supportz@eircom.net How do they fake the @eircom.net part in a hotmail address? The z in support is a real give away

PogMoThoin

masterwriter wrote: »

How can you tell it is hotmail address when it is supportz@eircom.net How do they fake the @eircom.net part in a hotmail address? The z in support is a real give away

@live.com is a dead giveaway

masterwriter

PogMoThoin wrote: »

@live.com is a dead giveaway

Of course. But how is it when you right click the message and click properties it gives the @eircom.net address

muggyog

Greetings to you

Obviously sent by the Martian 'customercentre'!!

Deliverance XXV

masterwriter wrote: »

Of course. But how is it when you right click the message and click properties it gives the @eircom.net address

As a CC address??
Why didn't they send from that address?
To create an Eircom email address you have to be an Eircom customer.
Certainly not 100% traceable/foolproof as someone could just steal an Eircom customer's wireless signal and register and email from there under the Eircom customer's IP.

masterwriter

King Nothing wrote: »

As a CC address??

I don't think it is cc. am I wrong?

Why didn't they send from that address?

as far as I understand they did

Blowfish

masterwriter wrote: »

I don't think it is cc. am I wrong?as far as I understand they did

Email headers can be faked and is likely what they did in this case.

[edit]Example.

MrParanoid

You can fake a sent from address, you can just use a SMTP server (which most of them still dont use a user name / password, just for recieving mail because thats connected to your account, but sending does not need verification) i can just use (im guessing) smtp.eircom.net and fill in any sent from address that i want. The only thing that will really give it off is the IP address it was sent from, and if their smart they spoofed that

Khannie

masterwriter wrote: »

Well some folk may have got caught

Oh I agree. I think it's decent to put up stuff like that, especially when it's targetted directly at Irish users. I just think it's a very bad attempt to scam people.

biko

masterwriter wrote: »

Greetings to you,
This is to formally notify you that we are presently working on the
eircom.net, and this can close your webmail account with
eircom.net completely.
To avoid this, please send your surname and password to eircom.net customer
care email address: web_customercentre14@live.com Please do this,so your
eircom.net account can be protected from being close.
Your immediate response is highly needed.

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It's even written in Nigerian English

Anti

masterwriter wrote: »

Well some folk may have got caught

And if they did its their own fault :rolleyes: