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DNF$: 2,340 Location: nevaeH emaN niamoD | Bogus Email Message Sent To AT&T Customers Source RNewswire-------------------------- I feel for the owner of the domain name! -------------------original text follows----------------------------- Advisory: Bogus Email Message Sent To AT&T Customers BEDMINSTER, N.J., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- This evening AT&T became aware of a fraudulent email scam involving a bogus email message sent to AT&T customers. The email address includes "att-global.com," and the email message itself states that AT&T needs certain information from customers in order to verify billing records. This message is unauthorized and should be disregarded. The requested information includes items such as social security number, credit card numbers, birth dates, mother's maiden name (a key password verification question) and "driver's licence" (spelled incorrectly). AT&T Security has traced the fraudulent messages to an international email address known for this type of fraud, and has shut it down. However, customers should be aware that the bogus operation could resurface elsewhere. If any AT&T customer receives an email message that has "att-global.com" in the address and requests verification of billing data, they should not respond with any information whatsoever. Instead, they should forward the fraudulent email message to AT&T Security at security@att.com. AT&T has notified the proper authorities and they are in the process of investigating. Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991018/ATT
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DNF$: 1,232 Location: Madison, WI | Assuming the message really came from att-global.com and wasn't forged, it's very likely that the person who registered the name did so with false info and a stolen credit card. The people trying to scam clueless AOL users out of their passwords using similar sounding domain names do that.
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DNF$: 105 Location: Boca Raton, FL | As I always say, if big corporations didn't use huge assortments of domain names with silly variations on their corporate name for marketing-gimmick purposes, such scams would be less effective... if the only true AT&T sites were in att.com (and its subdomains), and the same for AOL sites in aol.com, Ebay sites in ebay.com, etc., then there'd be less "mileage" in scamming through the use of "ebay-support.com" and so on... users can plausibly think that such domains are legitimate because many similar ones are actually used by the corporations involved. |
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