OH GOD! Using WordTracker website for FRAUD ?!

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by jiosis, Apr 11, 2007.

  1. #1
    Just got an email saying:
    Irregular check card activities and asking me to login to my Bank of America account and enter my username and password
    Yes it's an obvious SCAM and FRAUD but you can't believe what was the URL !!!

    
    http://www.wordtracker.com/articles/system/cache/db_cache/www.bankofameria.com/repution/Online_BofA_Banking/UpdatingScreen.dostate=CA/updating.cfmpage=corp_bofacom/BankofAmricaScreen.dostate=CA/
    
    Code (markup):
    I can't even guess what is going on ?
    I entered fake username and pass , I entered in and there was a page asking me for credit card information, ok, I bypassed it, another page asking security questions, then I was redirected to original bankofamerica.com webpage.

    This time, it was a really smart fraud ideam isn't it?
     
    jiosis, Apr 11, 2007 IP
  2. jiosis

    jiosis Well-Known Member

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    By the way I assumed you all know Wordtracker.com as one of the most popular keyword research softwares for SEO.
     
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    :eek: What in that url are sending the user to the scam address ?
     
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    jiosis Well-Known Member

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    YES !
    That URL from WordTracker, is actually a fake webpage, of BANKOFAMERICA !
    But I really don't know how !
     
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    jiosis Well-Known Member

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    I also tried to contact wordtracker's support by sending tickets but still didn't get any reply !
     
    jiosis, Apr 11, 2007 IP
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    -Abhishek- Regaining my Momentum!

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    Wordtracker has fixed it. :) ....

    It's some kind of an exploit on the wordtracker website, nothing to worry about! They are on it :)

    Cheers
     
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    jiosis Well-Known Member

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    One of the things I am worried about is that, I have more than 20 email addresses (on my different websites) and I got this email exactly in two of them and just two of them. Those two that I used on wordtracker in signup form.
    I hope it was just an accident :)

    Anyway, here is the reply I got from them Finally:

    Hello there

    Thanks for telling us. Our technical team have been told about this and
    we're dealing it as a matter of urgency!
     
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    That can definitely not be an accident.
     
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    Unfortunately, that's what I thought ! And it was the first reason I emailed them but their reply doesn't show any apology or something !
    Really there is no way to trust sites' privacy policy when they require an email address to sign up.
    Anyway finally they blocked that page !
     
    jiosis, Apr 12, 2007 IP