[SEL] Re: A "New" Credit Card Scam OT

[peter ogborne]

Thanks Curt, I do appreciate your posting unlike some patronising 
individual............damming with faint praise!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Evans" <jerrye at databak.co.za>
To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:01 PM
Subject: [SEL] Re: A "New" Credit Card Scam OT


> Subject: [SEL] FW: A New Credit Card Scam OT
> This came from a close friend who is doing financial advising.  Normally
> don't
> forward these type of things but this a real threat.
> Curt Andree
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> Hi Curt,
> This one has come around for a long time. I'm not saying "ignore it" - I'm
> just saying that is is not "New" as per the subject line.
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> With these things I usually copy a fair chunk of the text content and put
> this into Google between inverted comma's.
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> With this one I googled
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> "from the Security and Fraud Department at VISA"
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> Google came up with 1720 pages for this.
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> I just looked at a few of these and one had already been posted on 2001.
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> There are so many of these things going around that one does not know
> which ones to believe - Google is always a good place to go.
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> I'm not saying ignore them - but do not always be alarmed. Follow a few
> simple rules - Credit Card companies and Banks will never ask you for this
> kind of confidential information over the phone. I do not know how it 
> works
> in your country but here they will ask you to call at the nearest branch 
> at
> your convenience.  Yes. I know that "Con Artists" can be very convincing
> (the "con" stands for "confidence" - that is what they play on - trying to
> gain your confidence).
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> If you get one of these calls and are worried then ask the caller what his
> telephone extension number is and offer to call him back  -  on the number
> you have on record - not the number the caller gives you and see what
> happens. Of course you can also log on to your banking site and see if the
> transaction he has mentioned is actually listed. Bear in mind that banks
> debit your account very fast, in fact, by the time someone from a genuine
> bank phones you, the transaction will have been debited to your account
> quite a long time previously - electronics work much faster than humans 
> and
> they make big bucks out of interest.
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> The best way to prepare yourself for these people is just to discipline
> yourself NOT to give any confidential information over the phone or 
> internet.
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> Have you seen some of the false banking sites set up on the 'net. They
> look just like the real thing and ask for login passwords and usernames. 
> If
> you hover your mouse over the link offered in these scam eMails and look 
> at
> the bottom of your browser (I use Netscape but think the others work the
> same way) you will see the site that is linked. If this does not look like
> your banking site but is rather a long URL consisting of (amongst others)
> numbers like 200:57:216:05/login.asp or something then do not use it -
> rather login to your bank using your normal method and see if they mention
> anything like the eMail you have been reading. Better still phone their
> office direct and ask if they know anything about this mail. A phone call
> costs less than having your account cleaned out by some crook. (Of course
> these things never affect me because my account is always overdrawn - and
> there is nothing for these crooks :-))
>
> Thanks for the good intentions anyway.
> Jerry in S.A.
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> Best regards
> Jerry Evans.
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