Onbux : Phishing alert ! Do not click !

@topffer (42156)
France
March 16, 2011 5:59am CST
I just made my clicks at Onbux and got this mini-add : "get free 10$ in alertpay" This guy asks for your email, password and pin at AlertPay : indeed they are phishing and trying to steal your hard earned AlertPay money : do not enter these data, please ! A Whois gives an address and name in Morocco for the domain. Be careful : nobody will give you $10 for nothing in a PTC.
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16 responses
@few00cent (2183)
• India
16 Mar 11
its good that you alerted people on this..I am pretty sure there are many innocent people who will fall on such trap blindly without thinking why someone want to give away free money.no matters what you should not give away your account password to anyone...password is not required to send money.
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@akp100 (13640)
• India
16 Mar 11
Thanks for informing.. It will be good for all. Such scammers should not get any kind of success.. So better we spread this. Good Job.
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@akp100 (13640)
• India
16 Mar 11
Yeah it is surprise if they don't do anything about them... They are making their users account unsecure.. Hope they will do something about that.
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@megamatt (14292)
• United States
16 Mar 11
Your last sentence really did drive home the point. No one will give you ten dollars for nothing indeed. I think that there are two types of people who will fall for this one. Greedy people or gullible people. There are a lot of people who think, "woo, free ten dollars" and then enter that information and will get sucked completely dry. Really, they have no one to really blame but themselves. They didn't have to enter their information, they chose to. I just wonder how many people fell right for this one. Given the concentration of people that are gullible on the Internet, I would imagine that many would in fact have fallen for such a thing. Still when someone asks for such information, it is common sense 101 that you do not enter said information. Then again, people aren't really that bright to begin with in this day and age or rather greedy.
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@ekoytyas (4679)
• Indonesia
16 Mar 11
dump way for stealth account..
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@topffer (42156)
• France
16 Mar 11
I do not know how the phisher manages to cash out, but I suppose he has not only an account or a credit card...
@ekoytyas (4679)
• Indonesia
18 Mar 11
I once experienced theft paypal balance, thief mode is almost the same as you experienced them. but I do dispute the money, so that he could not steal it
@aeiou78 (3445)
• Malaysia
18 Mar 11
For me, I don't think to provide all of my particular to a stranger. We should use our logical sense to decide and judge out in whatever we are doing. Never follow the instruction blindly.
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@louievill (28859)
• Philippines
16 Mar 11
Thanks for the warning friend, but that,,, should try a little bit harder to put one over me, my horns are too long and sharp already for a trick like that, what I'm worried about are the new users who might be taken for a ride
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@louievill (28859)
• Philippines
17 Mar 11
I'll be more than glad to give him all my information, including my PP & AP passwords, but first I have to give him my PP and AP email so he can send me money, for all the information he needs
@jazzsue58 (2666)
16 Mar 11
Surely no-one in their right mind would give out their PIN?!!! I almost got caught with a PayPal one once, through an email saying suspicious activity on my account. It LOOKED like PP, but I left when it got to wanting the PIN I use for my debit card.The address should have warned me, plus the "dear Paypal user" rather than my name. can't believe I nearly fell for it. Amazing these pond scum are using so-called legit sites to carry out their crooked scams now ...
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• United States
17 Mar 11
Interesting topffer does not seize to amaze me on how so many scammers today will go for anything and not stop until they get what they want. Seems like many today are getting so vulnerable that at times reasoning does not kick in and are easily fooled. I suppose need can deter a person from thinking sometimes, but this is good topffer that you alert. Not enough alert these days, more like scammers are winning. So thanks I will be sure to watch for it although I try not to enter my email address anymore anywhere. The old phase you do not get nothing for nothing is always on my mind.
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@fannitia (2167)
• Bulgaria
16 Mar 11
Hi, Topffer, thanks for this alert to members! This scam is easy to notice but sometimes people don't pay attention. I got caught like this once. I was working, I was in a hurry and without thinking I sent an email with the password for my account. I had a hard time to recover my mail at yahoo, plus this guy was sending messages to everybody in my address book asking for money. What a shame that I did something so stupid.
@topffer (42156)
• France
17 Mar 11
Hi fannitia, I understand your email problem. I have days where I am a bit absent-minded and I can stupidly give my password to a phisher. I am not always careful when I use a wifi connection for my phone : all the routers of my ISP are shared and I know that some phishers are trying to get the user name and password by showing similar log in pages. The problem is that the password is the same for all services of my ISP, and... I prefer to not think about the consequences. What happened to you is not stupidity, it is a moment's inattention. Have a nice day.
@StrataO (18)
• Indonesia
17 Mar 11
Many thanks for information,,I would never give respon to thing likes that because someone like that take advantage to other people or newbies and deceive them to promises to provide a lucrative reward
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@topffer (42156)
• France
17 Mar 11
Hello Strata0 and welcome to myLot, Give only a payment processor password to log in the payment processor. Do it online, and verify that the URL is the URL of the payment processor -- AlertPay, PayPal, etc. -- Do not give it anywhere else : your email is enough and an online site never needs to know your password. The problem of a "reward" is that we need to deserve it to get it : free money for doing nothing does not exist. Have a good day.
@aghiuta (525)
• Canada
18 Mar 11
Thanks for the info.I learned that we should never give out any such info.I got a lot of e.mails saying that something is wrong with one or other of my pay processors,and it was blocked,or something other.If I want to know if it really is something wrong I open a new window and go to he official site (let's say PayPal) and sign in and check if is anything going on.
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@Tzakgr (46)
• Greece
17 Mar 11
I agree with that...People be careful...It would be a good idea to inform onbux about that but i believe that onbux doesnt matter on this...Well i'll say again!Be careful People...topffer thanks for the information...
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@driadi (29)
• Indonesia
16 Mar 11
thanks for the information bro... indeed present a lot a fraud, and we do have to be more observant and cautious.
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@huidu76 (54)
• Germany
16 Mar 11
Thanks Topffer for the information.
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@shattered (1728)
• Philippines
16 Mar 11
Never give your password. Never give your PIN or Security Number. I live by these and when some site or emails asks for it, I know its a scam, Thanks for the heads up though!
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@raj7shot (838)
• India
19 Mar 11
thx for that useful information...