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

[cgandree at mchsi.com]

Yes Peter I agree some folks do appreciate info that they may not of heard 
before and glad you and few others can be helped by it.
thankyou very much,
Curt


> 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
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> > 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
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > With these things I usually copy a fair chunk of the text content and put
> > this into Google between inverted comma's.
> >
> > With this one I googled
> >
> > "from the Security and Fraud Department at VISA"
> >
> > Google came up with 1720 pages for this.
> >
> > I just looked at a few of these and one had already been posted on 2001.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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