FAKE EIRCOM EMAIL WARNING

Biggins

I know this is a security issue (and its posted in the "Tech - Security" section) but its an important one that every NEW NET USER should see.
I hope the mods allow me the exception of posting it here to warn others.

Eircom fake emails are going around again

Got this email this morning. Am 100% sure its a fake.

Dear Email Account Owner,
This message is from EIRCOM.NET
messaging center to all email account owners.
We are currently upgrading our data base and
e-mail account center. We are deleting all our
EIRCOM.NET Email account users
and other personal email accounts to create
more space for new accounts.
To prevent your EIRCOM.NET and
personal account from closing you will have to update it
below so that we will know that it's a presently
used account.We have been sending this notice to all email
account owners and this is the last notice/verification exercise.
CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
Email Username :.......... .....
EMAIL Password :................
Date of Birth :................
Country or Territory:..........
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to
update his or her account within Seven days of
receiving this warning will lose his or her account
permanently.
Thank you! EIRCOM.NET INTERNET.
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ
Thanks,
EIRCOM.NET Account Upgrade Team

You had to reply to: eircom@localnet.com
Definitely NOT the way eircom send out emails - from a different email address server!

I contacted Eircom and then contacted the company that is hosting the server from which the emails were coming from.
Site: http://www.localnet.com/contact.php

Please warn others about this that you know.

Fratton Fred

that email smacks of customer service. No way did that come from Eircom

Adam

i thought we had moved past the "OMFG!!1 i got a spam email!!" times...

GrumPy

Mirror wrote: »

i thought we had moved past the "OMFG!!1 i got a spam email!!" times...

Apprently not.

Chucky the tree

Anyone who's thick enough to fall for these emails deserves it.

smellslikeshoes

Mirror wrote: »

i thought we had moved past the "OMFG!!1 i got a spam email!!" times...

I could imagine theres more people who would fall for this than the usual Nigerian royalty ones. There would be more people who are less internet savy with Eircom Email addresses than with other Email providers, not only that but Eircom have been upgrading their email system so it seems pretty plausible.

Biggins

I wouldn't fall for it but others will hit the REPLY button before putting their brain into gear.
They might be muppets but in good conscience, I'd still rather try and warn some of them.
Its the right thing to do.

Adam

smellslikeshoes wrote: »

I could imagine theres more people who would fall for this than the usual Nigerian royalty ones. There would be more people who are less internet savy with Eircom Email addresses than with other Email providers, not only that but Eircom have been upgrading their email system so it seems pretty plausible.

plausible? it asks for you're password, in plain text. nobody does that, not banks, not broadband providers, not mobile phone providers, not email providers. it's a rule of thumb.

ShooterSF

I'd hope the D.O.B thing will throw people off but there's always a few who dont see the harm it can do.

ShooterSF

Mirror wrote: »

plausible? it asks for you're password, in plain text. nobody does that, not banks, not broadband providers, not mobile phone providers, not email providers. it's a rule of thumb.

To you or me or most others here yes. But I know my parents and others who send an odd email who probably wouldnt cop it.

Anti

You really would have to be some kind of inbred retard to even think that was from Eircon. OP do you not have a spam filter on your email ?

useful_contacts

The other day i got an email from The Royal Bank Of Scotland and im not even with them:D

Adam

ShooterSF wrote: »

To you or me or most others here yes. But I know my parents and others who send an odd email who probably wouldnt cop it.

then they shouldn't be using it or should do so under supervision if working with any sensitive information.

Cuddlesworth

I got this but I chose to ignore it. After I get my 200,000 off of the Spanish lottery which I had apparently forgot doing, I'm gone from this country in a heartbeat.

wandatowell

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

I got this but I chose to ignore it. After I get my 200,000 off of the Spanish lottery which I had apparently forgot doing, I'm gone from this country in a heartbeat.

your heading to spain to do the lotto ya?

ShooterSF

I know the OP did or does repair home computers and I make a living doing so now and guys ye really underestimating the level of understanding people have about these things.

I know it's stupid to give out these details but I can bet that usually smart people will fall for this. I don't see the harm in getting a warning out so that it may prevent someone from falling for it.

If it was one of those get rich quick scams and someone fell for it fair enough they were taught a lesson in greed but this is just playing on peoples lack of knowledge that an email can be made to look like its coming from eircom when its not.

Satiro

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

I got this but I chose to ignore it. After I get my 200,000 off of the Spanish lottery which I had apparently forgot doing, I'm gone from this country in a heartbeat.

Yea, I have won the Spanish lottery a good few time already. I should be a mutibillionaire by now.

Frisbee

I for one welcome our new account cancelling overlords

AnonoBoy

People still use eircom email accounts?

Biggins

I get dozens of these a day from a number of my different personal and business email accounts.

I'm not going "O' my gawd... I got a fake email!"

My point of posting this is to warn new users to the net world that the latest round of these emails from a new source has materialised.
9 out of 10 will hopefully kop on but 1 out of ten will fall for it.
I'd rather try to warn than do nothing. Most of us have seen these warnings before but new uses might not have or need a reminder.
So as much as some might dislike this topic repeating - sadly its the lesser of two evils I rather see posted (than a post saying I was stupid to fall for it).

egan007

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Adam

Biggins wrote: »

I get dozens of these a day from a number of my different personal and business email accounts.

I'm not going "O' my gawd... I got a fake email!"

My point of posting this is to warn new users to the net world that the latest round of these emails from a new source has materialised.
9 out of 10 will hopefully kop on but 1 out of ten will fall for it.
I'd rather try to warn than do nothing. Most of us have seen these warnings before but new uses might not have or need a reminder.
So as much as some might dislike this topic repeating - sadly its the lesser of two evils I rather see posted (than a post saying I was stupid to fall for it).

i'd much rather a thread about someone falling for it, it would entertain me somewhat.

people can break the law or be conned in real life, out on the streets.
people can break the law or be conned on the internet

people educate themselves about the world they step out into each day in real life.
......

care to finish that for me?

Karoma

I was like totally shocked and appalled to find out that the boob inspector was not a real Federal Boob Inspector!!!1!
He had a cap!! A CAP DAMNIT!!

Anyways, I just thought I'd warn yiz because I know a lot of you are retarded enough to fall for this.






Biggins: You really shouldn't be getting too many of these emails. If you are: Get a new email address; get picky about where you give it out; get a spam filter.
As for those who would fall for this: **** 'em. They have it coming.

Biggins

Mirror wrote: »

i'd much rather a thread about someone falling for it, it would entertain me somewhat.

people can break the law or be conned in real life, out on the streets.
people can break the law or be conned on the internet

people educate themselves about the world they step out into each day in real life.
......

care to finish that for me?

Aye.

people educate themselves about the world they step out into each day in real life.

...so lets help educate them for the things they miss while life is flashing too fast past them!

Adam

Biggins wrote: »

Aye.

...so lets help educate them for the things they miss while life is flashing too fast past them!

can't. gotta watch porn.

Biggins

Karoma wrote: »

Biggins: You really shouldn't be getting too many of these emails. If you are: Get a new email address; get picky about where you give it out; get a spam filter.
As for those who would fall for this: **** 'em. They have it coming.

Because of my business addresses, I used to get 700+ a day.
Have a spam filter, a few of them actually. Now only the really new ones get through and thats quickly sorted.

I agree some deserve to be fall for this but the moral and right thing to do is at least remind net newbies that these dangers exist.
If after that, they ignore the warnings, they do indeed deserve what they get.

Captain Darling

Mirror wrote: »

i thought we had moved past the "OMFG!!1 i got a spam email!!" times...

Don't die of shock but there are actually people who are new to this site, and its this sort of elitism that prevents them for staying to long or posting at all. Internet snobbery cracks me up.:pac::pac:

Adam

Captain Darling wrote: »

Don't die of shock but there are actually people who are new to this site, and its this sort of elitism that prevents them for staying to long or posting at all. Internet snobbery cracks me up.:pac::pac:

i was talking about the internet as a whole, not this site. now leave me alone n00b.

smellslikeshoes

Mirror wrote: »

then they shouldn't be using it or should do so under supervision if working with any sensitive information.

Be realistic.

Ebonyellie

I Hate that crap, this morning when i opened my email i got 7 from different women in london claiming that they are due to die soon and need my help to access their late husbands trust funds, i have one from the FBI claiming my identity had been stolen and to verify my details, i won 1.5 million from a lottery connected with fedex, not to mention the 300,000 i won from coca cola, i have five new atm cards and the nigerian banks love me a lot.

Adam

smellslikeshoes wrote: »

Be realistic.

sure. next time i need to go to the bank i'll send a 6 year old that has no notion of what they're doing while i'm at it.

Terry

Jesus ****ing christ. Cop the fúck on the lot of you.

Ooh, look at me. I know how to use the internet without getting scammed. I'm really super.

Some people will fall for it.
There are actually people out there who haven't been suckling at the teet of boards.ie and other sites for the past ten years. People who generally just use the internet to send and recieve e-mail.

Adam

Terry wrote: »

Jesus ****ing christ. Cop the fúck on the lot of you.

Ooh, look at me. I know how to use the internet without getting scammed. I'm really super.

Some people will fall for it.
There are actually people out there who haven't been suckling at the teet of boards.ie and other sites for the past ten years. People who generally just use the internet to send and recieve e-mail.

so they shouldn't be aware of the potential dangers of doing so? and i'm not really that super, i've been rickrolled a bunch of times -_-

ncmc

All Biggins is doing is MAKING people aware of potential dangers, I can't believe the grief he/she is getting for trying to do a good thing.

There are many people who wouldn't be fooled by the Nigerian great great grandfather or Spanish lotto, but who would see a name like Eircom in the email and think it was on the level. I got a similar email from a crowd claiming to be Yahoo, and my first instinct was to reply, I didn't, but I did think about it for a second and I do not consider myself to be a retard/slow/gullible/ass-hole or any of the other lovely names mentioned in this post.

ShooterSF

Mirror wrote: »

so they shouldn't be aware of the potential dangers of doing so? and i'm not really that super, i've been rickrolled a bunch of times -_-

Yes they should. And topics like this one are how they become aware of it. I know this is AH and I'd never expect to see human compasion (sp?) in it, hell most of the time it'd take the fun out of this forum but it's nice once in a while to actually try and make people aware of the dangerous as you said yourself..

Karoma

Why are there no threads warning people not to give their credit card & personal details to some randomer who phones them out of the blue claiming to be from Eircom trying to confirm their details?
Why are there no threads warning people not to give their credit card & personal details to someone who writes to them via snail mail claiming to be from Eircom, but with a return address in Nigeria?
Why the hell do the ignorant have to be protected because this medium involves a magic box that shoots electrons and diginons across this flat Earth?

I have some sympathy for people who fall for a phishing expidition where the email address was spoofed or something, but this?!

**** 'em.



This isn't me giving the OP a hard time because his heart is in the right place. He insisted that it be posted in AH, therefore it's open for discussion.

Biggins

Karoma wrote: »

This isn't me giving the OP a hard time because his heart is in the right place. He insisted that it be posted in AH, therefore it's open for discussion.

Understandable and appreciate that the topic is still open.
I'm very grateful to the mods for allowing it to be.

That its posted also in AH - I'm glad it been discussed - for two reasons.

1. That boards.ie by allowing the topic also to be here, is at the same time helping to make aware/warn net newbies to the current new wave of scams.
Each new post to this topic helps to keep it up for any new members that have joined in the last few days and are new to net use in general.

2. That it can indeed be discussed and perhaps we will eventually give this topic enough attention that someone will help fight these scammers by further chasing those perpetrating these crimes.

It is easy to say "they deserve what they get, those who fall for these scams" but we all started off on the net at some time.
Were we all fully aware of the dangers of the net and associated services/applications when we all first turned on our pc's and laptops?

I know its bloomin' annoying to have this subject crop up again and again, lord knows I get tired of reading about spam scams - but I have the decency to grit my teeth every time because I know that every time this subject comes up, at least one person out there on the net world, will hopefully learn and heisitate long enough more so to think about what they are replying to before they actually click "Reply".

Maybe we can move on and discuss effective ways to combat these scammers and how we can stop service providers like localnet.com from aiding these scumbags!
A few suggestions wouldn't go a miss!

---

It personally gauls me that someone would use the Eircom name to scam our own people - because thats what they are doing - scamming our people on our own small island.
Attacking our own Irish folk with eircom email addresses scams. I take it personal because as much as I know Eircom is not the best when it comes to net service, etc, - they are at least one of our own companies based in Ireland and I'd hate to think these scammers are ripping off our own people.
I'd like to help my neighbour - maybe they someday will help me!
I love the country. I love the people. I consider it an honour to help where I can, do what I can, thats all...

Terry

I love you too, man.

Cuddlesworth

Terry wrote: »

I love you too, mom.

Fixed that for you.

ScumLord

Biggins wrote: »

1. That boards.ie by allowing the topic also to be here, is at the same time helping to make aware/warn net newbies to the current new wave of scams.

New? This scam is as old as the hills it's even more pathetic on the web because they can't use any trickery or hard sell tactics. They just relie on the reader being a complete tosspot.

Biggins

ScumLord wrote: »

...They just rely on the reader being a complete tosspot.

...or just tired after a long day, not thinking straight - maybe distracted enough to not know any different - stressed during or after a long day minding kids or looking after an elderly parent... etc.

It sadly happens.

And for others to try and take advantage of such situations ...that gets me angry.

AlmightyCushion

Biggins wrote: »

It personally gauls me that someone would use the Eircom name to scam our own people - because thats what they are doing - scamming our people on our own small island.
Attacking our own Irish folk with eircom email addresses scams. I take it personal because as much as I know Eircom is not the best when it comes to net service, etc, - they are at least one of our own companies based in Ireland and I'd hate to think these scammers are ripping off our own people.
I'd like to help my neighbour - maybe they someday will help me!
I love the country. I love the people. I consider it an honour to help where I can, do what I can, thats all...

Who honestly gives a crap what name they use to scam people? You wouldn't have a problem with this if someone was using microsoft's or aol's name? They're scamming people, therefore they are scum no matter what name they use.

Anyways we can't warn everyone about the potential dangers out there. If we did, it's all we'd ever do simply because there are so many potential dangers out there.

Biggins

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Anyways we can't warn everyone about the potential dangers out there. If we did, it's all we'd ever do simply because there are so many potential dangers out there.

Very true sadly but at least we can all try. There's no harm done in looking out for each other, even a little bit.

AlmightyCushion

Biggins wrote: »

There's no harm done in looking out for each other, even a little bit.

Just do what I do and tell everyone to watch the real hustle. After watching every episode of that they'll be so paranoid about everyone trying to scam them they won't even trust themselves with their bank details.

Biggins

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Just do what I do and tell everyone to watch the real hustle. After watching every episode of that they'll be so paranoid about everyone trying to scam them they won't even trust themselves with their bank details.

Maybe that explains Run_to_da_hills god bless him!

antodeco

Biggins wrote: »

It wouldn't surprise me. You should meet my ma! :eek:

Oh but I have, many a times...


wait...thats kinda insulting to me....doh.


Lets hurl a brickie mart!