Alert: New Phishing Scam!!!

[Warlord Sam]

I just got this message in my inbox:

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Jan 12, 2010, 04:51 PM
Lady_Admin
Chieftain

Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: US
Posts: 0

Important message from the forum administration
Dear, Delthayre;Warlord Sam;Killer A's;degaulle;Mike B. FIRAXIS!

A virus alert was noticed on your computer.
We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: <snip> Sam;Killer A's;degaulle;Mike B. FIRAXIS
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Sincerely, Forum Administration forums.civfanatics.com.
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Obviously fake and intended to get me a virus or some other nastiness. Please take immediate action to ban this user and make sure that other people aren't going to fall for this message.

 

[ori]

I removed the spam link you quoted - no need to help them
its known and dealt with - please if you get spam pms use the report pm function ( above the pm) - this will notify moderators and admins and make sure that its obvious who sent the pm.

 

[GenMarshall]

You can report PMs? I never knew that.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's a handy feature of vBulletin forums, which I learned about on another forum when somebody started sending me abusive PMs.

 

[Warlord Sam]

thanks ori, i looked for a minute trying to find a report function but couldn't see it, i'll look for that graphic next time... funny how hard it is to find a specific feature on forums sometimes

 

[ori]

say I wanted to report GA's pm for trying to help me with some moderating stuff - I'd just click on the report icon highlighted with the red circle

 

[Valka D'Ur]

This scam has hit the IPBFree boards as well; I reported one this morning.

 

[holy king]

how phishing can still work in 2010 is beyond me.

 

[Lord Baal]

how phishing can still work in 2010 is beyond me.

Because the average human being is a total moron?