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User icare24 just send $785.99 USD with E-mail to you:
SwiftPay UserID: icare24
Transaction#: 0115910
Date: 23-07-2003
Comments: Your profile with us indicate that you are not satisfied from us, per our EPI policy we are sending money as compensation to you, your insurance policy gives you the rights to receive these funds. Swiftpay will not charge you any fee for the withdrawal.
Your E-mail is not registered with us, in order to receive your money you need to setup account with Swiftpay and verify your identity. Please follow the link and enter all needed information http://www.swiiftpay.com/signup
Once you register, the money will appear in your SwiftPay's account balance in your overview page. You can withdraw the outstanding balance to your credit or debt card's bank account which you added during the registration process.
Kind Regards,
SwiftPay Account Managers
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Note! the link to SwiiftPay.com in the email above is intentionally misspelled by the spam sender with two of the letter "i". There is a website at SwiftPay.com that looks similar but network diagnostics suggest that the SwiftPay.com and SwiiftPay.com machines are in way different places.
If you click on the link in the email it takes you to a page where you are asked for your personal contact information and your social security number which leads you to a page to enter your Credit Card information and finally you get a message that "Manual authorization is required" with instructions to watch your email for a confirmation.
The credit card pages claim to be secure pages but the web server sends no security certificate and the page is not encrypted according to Internet Explorer.
It is anyone's guess what happens with your credit and personal information after it is obtained in this kind of deceptive way.
---[ Lessons ]---
1) Do not enter personal information into web forms unless you previously know and have dealt with the company involved.
2) So maybe you have heard of SwiftPay.com and you know them right? Wrong! Unless you read carefully, you may not see that the domain link is misspelled and it turns out that you are being sent to what appears to be a phony site that looks the same as SwiftPay.com!
Be vary cautious when asked for personal information if you did not initiate the contact that lead up to your offering the information.
Note: The real signup process at www.SwiftPay.com does not ask for your Credit Card information and acceptance is instantaneous.
3) Wow! $785 to me and all I have to do is give you my email address, social security number, credit card number and other personal information, well now who would send me that kind of money? Well, probably no one.
SwiftPay.com is not the only site that has been used by scammers in this way, PayPal and other well known sites have also been used.
On the internet, if it seems too good to be true, it is probably someone trying to get your attention so they can shove advertising in your face or to scam you. Based on their asking for Credit Card numbers, I suspect the second in this case.
User icare24 just send $785.99 USD with E-mail to you:
SwiftPay UserID: icare24
Transaction#: 0115910
Date: 23-07-2003
Comments: Your profile with us indicate that you are not satisfied from us, per our EPI policy we are sending money as compensation to you, your insurance policy gives you the rights to receive these funds. Swiftpay will not charge you any fee for the withdrawal.
Your E-mail is not registered with us, in order to receive your money you need to setup account with Swiftpay and verify your identity. Please follow the link and enter all needed information http://www.swiiftpay.com/signup
Once you register, the money will appear in your SwiftPay's account balance in your overview page. You can withdraw the outstanding balance to your credit or debt card's bank account which you added during the registration process.
Kind Regards,
SwiftPay Account Managers
----[ end of spam ]----
Note! the link to SwiiftPay.com in the email above is intentionally misspelled by the spam sender with two of the letter "i". There is a website at SwiftPay.com that looks similar but network diagnostics suggest that the SwiftPay.com and SwiiftPay.com machines are in way different places.
If you click on the link in the email it takes you to a page where you are asked for your personal contact information and your social security number which leads you to a page to enter your Credit Card information and finally you get a message that "Manual authorization is required" with instructions to watch your email for a confirmation.
The credit card pages claim to be secure pages but the web server sends no security certificate and the page is not encrypted according to Internet Explorer.
It is anyone's guess what happens with your credit and personal information after it is obtained in this kind of deceptive way.
---[ Lessons ]---
1) Do not enter personal information into web forms unless you previously know and have dealt with the company involved.
2) So maybe you have heard of SwiftPay.com and you know them right? Wrong! Unless you read carefully, you may not see that the domain link is misspelled and it turns out that you are being sent to what appears to be a phony site that looks the same as SwiftPay.com!
Be vary cautious when asked for personal information if you did not initiate the contact that lead up to your offering the information.
Note: The real signup process at www.SwiftPay.com does not ask for your Credit Card information and acceptance is instantaneous.
3) Wow! $785 to me and all I have to do is give you my email address, social security number, credit card number and other personal information, well now who would send me that kind of money? Well, probably no one.
SwiftPay.com is not the only site that has been used by scammers in this way, PayPal and other well known sites have also been used.
On the internet, if it seems too good to be true, it is probably someone trying to get your attention so they can shove advertising in your face or to scam you. Based on their asking for Credit Card numbers, I suspect the second in this case.
