The Anonymous Widower

A Classic Phish

I received this today, purportedly from Vodafone.

Dear Customer,

You have a pending security update on your Vodafone account to protect you against online theft.

Kindly visit http://www.vodafone.co.uk/new_security/update/account.html

Regards

The Vodafone Team

It’s been well setup, but it does exactly what you think.  It points to a fake site and probably steals all of your details.

It actually points to a site called eadecom.net which is registered by Jose Canyellas Vila, who gave details of.

josep@senyal.com

LLuis Companys, 1 8-2
   Lleida 25003

It wouldn’t make any difference to me, as I’ve never had any account with Vodafone.

Nice one, Jose. All it meant that was your details are now with the guys with heavy boots and even heavier truncheons. You better get the toilet paper ready.  You’re going to need lots of it.

I’m not the first person to find Jose.  He’s mentioned on PhishTank.

October 12, 2012 - Posted by | Computing | , , ,

1 Comment »

  1. thanks for the link to PhishTank, have bookmarked it. It amazes me how many apparently intelligent people fall for these scams. And all the the other sob stories etc which do the rounds – I always check those on snopes.

    Comment by Liz P | October 12, 2012 | Reply


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