Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> writes:
I got a message from someone phishing as UPS. The interesting thing was that I was expecting a package on the same day from Amazon. I do not get a lot of UPS tagged spam and this one was written to slide through as a plain text message with a word document attached. The closeness to an Amazon delivery makes me wonder if someone has access to Amazon delivery information.
Interesting. But on 29 August my "Bank A" accounts were cleaned out leaving $1 in each of 2 accounts. Account "Bank A-2" has an overdraft given (ie Never requested) many years ago. "Bank A-2" including the overdraught accomodation were transferred into "Bank A-1" where the total balance apart from the $1 was Interac transferred to some recreant presumably with a throwaway account elsewhere in Canada. "Bank A" accounts are a sort of imprest accounts where I transfer in only enough to cover my monthly expenditures plus a couple of hundred for impulse items. "Bank B", my "main" bank luckily was not affected Some time later "Bank A" rectified the situation by reversing the fraudulent entries. But what they did not do was reverse the 10 NSF charges at $48 each leaving me $480 out of pocket before I could use "Bank B" to cover deficiencies. No banking information is stored on any user agent and bank contact on my iPhone is voice or digitally authenticated. However, recently, I got a letter from a corporation called "Financeit" who admitted to a security breach on August 26 and 27 but that only Loan Applicants were affected. I've never applied for a loan, am quite recently arrived in Canada from Portugal, and in any instance was 80 years old yesterday which I surmise might preclude anyone advancing me money even if I had applied. The closeness of the dates of the security breach and the defalcation of my funds makes me wonder. And adding insult to injury, a second page accompanying the Financeit confession/apology is blatant SPAM to sign up for their "Protection" service. It's a good job I retain a sense of humour. -- William Henderson aka Slackrat http://billh.sdf.org/slackware.jpg 9HS5203 ON HamSphere Ham Radio