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nwrickert
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Telephone phish?

At first glance, the email looks like a paypal phish. But there is no URL in the message - only a telephone number to call:

Dear customer,

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the
PayPal system. During a recent screening, we noticed an issue regarding
your account.

Our system requires further account verification.

To verify your account please call us at +1-808-213-0800.
Please have your primary credit card number available when you call.

Case ID Number: PP-295-830-917

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department

Headers show the mail as coming from Harvard (whom I am notifying).

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Re: Telephone phish?

You didn't call it? LOL

Yes, my name is Herman Munster, Yes, I live at 1313 Mockingbird Ln. My wife's name is Lillian. I have one son named Eddie.




What's wrong with my Pay Pal of Transylvania account? I'm coming to see you with my pet dragon named "Spot" !!
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said by nwrickert See Profile :

At first glance, the email looks like a paypal phish. But there is no URL in the message - only a telephone number to call...
Yep a phone phish, requested card number entry, etc. The KAUNAKAKAI, HI. MCIMETRO, ATS, INC. number was just pulled, it is now NLA. Phisher apparently could not splurge for a Toll free number.

MGD

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If the telephone line is on Hawaiian Homelands the phish scam is peanuts to the real scam. The real scam is how Sandwich Isles Communications Company receives more than $16M dollars per year to service 1,238 customers. Do the math. That's $13,345.00 per year, per residential account! Sandwich Isles Communications also just received one-half Billion dollars to provide broadband to 5,400 homes. Do the math. That's $93,000 per home. All of those homes already have landlines and are eligible for DSL, which even including repeaters, would run around $600 per home. Not that Sandwich Isles Communications is alone in raiding the "Universal Service Fee" fund for this scam. Mobi Communications is attempting to collect ~$1000.00 per month, per account to provide cell phone service to the same areas.
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