Another scam

[BodwadUK]

Dear valued Barclays IBank Customer!

As part of our continuing commitment to
protect your account and to reduce the instance
of fraud on our website, we are undertaking a
period review of our member accounts. You are
requested to visit our site by following the link
given below. This is required for us to continue
to offer you a safe and risk free environment to
send and receive money online, and maintain the
Barclays IBank Experience. You will be redirected to
the Barclays IBank home page after verification. Thank you.
https://ibank.barclays.co.uk/fp/1_2x...,logon,00.html

Pisses me off

[visualAd]

That link takes you to the real website. Why would they send you there??

[TomGibbons]

Wasn't there that IE exploit which made everything (the address bar, the status bar, link text) look like the real site, but really it was a faked one? I heard about that somewhere I think.

[Ideas Man]

Yeah, it's very easy to do, it could be handy but obviously someone exploits it and ruins it for everybody. For it to work, you type in the domain name e.g. www.vbforums.com and the @ symbol and the ip address to direct to so [email protected] will goto 10.0.0.1 instead of what it is supposed to do. Could be handy if a portion of your site is down or something but yeah it can also be exploited to get peoples details.

[BodwadUK]

Getting smarter arent they

I dont have a barclays card and would never respond to an email like that but some people would easily be caught out by that

why dont they just pi** off and get a proper job and life!!!!

[Ideas Man]

Exactly

[manavo11]

Cause they want your money

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by Ideas Man
Yeah, it's very easy to do, it could be handy but obviously someone exploits it and ruins it for everybody. For it to work, you type in the domain name e.g. www.vbforums.com and the @ symbol and the ip address to direct to so [email protected] will goto 10.0.0.1 instead of what it is supposed to do. Could be handy if a portion of your site is down or something but yeah it can also be exploited to get peoples details.

Yeah but this site doesn't do that, it's different trickery

[visualAd]

Originally posted by Ideas Man
Yeah, it's very easy to do, it could be handy but obviously someone exploits it and ruins it for everybody. For it to work, you type in the domain name e.g. www.vbforums.com and the @ symbol and the ip address to direct to so [email protected] will goto 10.0.0.1 instead of what it is supposed to do. Could be handy if a portion of your site is down or something but yeah it can also be exploited to get peoples details.

It is handy for sites the require authentication. It is actually a method of passing a username and password to a url:
e.g. http://username:[email protected]

The problem was older versions of internet explorer used to display the whole URL including the username and password bit so an exceedingly long url like this:
http://www.nationwide.com/internetbanking/[email protected]
Could easily hide the real site and fool people into clicking it and entering their personal details.

[Ideas Man]

Originally posted by kasracer
Yeah but this site doesn't do that, it's different trickery

I only used it as an example. Never said it uses it.

[venerable bede]

Originally posted by BodwadUK
Getting smarter arent they

I dont have a barclays card and would never respond to an email like that but some people would easily be caught out by that

why dont they just pi** off and get a proper job and life!!!!

Hello BodWad,

Just thought I would let you know that your bank has phoned me asking for help.

Can you please email me all you bank details, with pin number of course.

If you want you could always post them on this site so we could all help.

[BodwadUK]

my bank number is 14645311116846413515674
Sort code is 4568
Pin number is 8794

oh i mailed the card to you could you ensure it doesnt fall into the wrong hands.........
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BOLLO**S

You tricked me


I am hurt i trusted you

[Wally Pipp]

Always go through the numbers when dealing with secure information (bank details etc) : First check the claims in the mail and cross-reference with any news from the company (the real one), ring the company first for details on the mail etc ...

If you take everything at face value you're an easy target and could possibly lose quite a bit of money in the process.

On that note :

why doesn't Bill and his Chums do anything about those "Microsoft" spammers ? Been receiving their drivel for weeks now. Thank fook my spam blocker wised up and tags it as spam.

[wossname]

Originally posted by BodwadUK
my bank number is 14645311116846413515674
Sort code is 4568
Pin number is 8794

oh i mailed the card to you could you ensure it doesnt fall into the wrong hands.........
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BOLLO**S

You tricked me


I am hurt i trusted you

lol the joke is on you!

Those were MY details you gave him.

[BodwadUK]

Oh cool

Wait...
wait..
wait.

Yes there we go i just cleaned you out!!!!

[VisionIT]

I wonder how many irish peeps are currently trying to whack that credit card number in to an ATM!!!!

[BodwadUK]

oooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Wally Pipp]

Never knew the Oirish had ATM's. Or banks. Or money.

[Memnoch1207]

They can have money, but only if they can catch the Leprechauns!
Their whole economic system is built upon trying to catch those little green bastards.

Irish Bank: A person(s) who has caught 5 or more leprechauns.
Irish ATM: Leprechaun in a cage.