Mail Phishing "ACH"

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/phishing/nacha.asp

http://www.wizcrafts.net/blogs/2011/09/ach_email_sca...

Just for once, this appears to be a 'genuine' fraud attempt.

I don't know how vulnerable Apple Macs are to this, but it seems better to be safe than sorry, and delete any "ACH"emails before being tempted to open them.

These phishers are common and not confined to Mac users. In fact, they have nothing to do with your hardware platform; they are just emails inviting you to reveal your personal details. Mac users are just as susceptible to these as anyone else.

Such phishing attempts are so common that it is not worth boasting about them. Just a little commonsense is needed.

I always keep a few phishing emails in the junkmail folder- they won't do any harm without my help and they act as a useful check on the virus scanner.

The day a scan doesn't pick them up is the day I worry about the integrity of the scanner

But phishing emails are not viruses!

But good anti-virus software detects them (ClamXav certainly does).

You can forward any bank scam email unopened to [email protected]

I've saved this as a contact under Bank Scam Report, so it doesn't take a moment to forward this rubbish.

Remember it's not just email scams that are happening apparently the post is full of this rubbish too.

That is handy. Just saved that post.

Thanks for that one, Mike.

"These phishers are common and not confined to Mac users. In fact, they have nothing to do with your hardware platform; they are just emails inviting you to reveal your personal details. Mac users are just as susceptible to these as anyone else."

Well, up to a point.
But take a few minutes to read the two links in the original post, and it is (just) possible that you may think again.

Well, I've (speed) read those posts, and I cannot see *any* reference to platform-specific trojans. Feel free to point me at the part that indicates this is a Mac-specific issue ..

Edited by deleted (Sun 04-Sep-11 18:36:51)

I did and even searched for "MAC or Apple" to no avail. The only prevalent term is "Clearing Houses". Perhaps you are wrongly inferring that they run their systems on Macs

In fact these are not actually phishing emails ("directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one") but viruses/malware which carry an attachment that is almost certainly written in Windows executable code.

And, yes, any respectable virus checker should catch these as they are not straightforward phishing attempts.

Silly question, how do you forward UNopened?

Easy! Highlight mail item in list of items in Inbox and click Forward.

You will then say that in doing this it will open the body of the email so you can insert the To: addy. True, but at least you will not have opened any attachments, wherein lies the dangers.