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What is it with "Flagstar Bank"??

Dargo

Dargo

Like a bad penny...
For a couple of months now I've gotten hundreds of emails from criminals phishing. Basically these are people who, to be blunt, are trying to steal from me. The asshole criminals must be making progress with customers of some "Flagstar Bank" because I get a dozen or more email like this per week:

Flagstar Bank Security Measures.

Dear Flagstar Bank Member,

Your account has been randomly flagged in our system as a part of our routine security measures. This is a must to ensure that only you have access and use of your Flagstar Bank account . experience. We require all flagged accounts to verify their information on file with us. To verify your information at this time, please visit our secure server webform by clicking the link below:
http://0xd2.0x6b.0x45.0x3a/.cgi/.flagstar.com/servlet/onlineserv/HB/Signon.jsp

If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporarily suspend your account.
Thank you for your patience as we work together to protect your account.

Best Regards,


Internet Antifraud Department
Flagstar Bank

My damn deleted box is full of these things. Does anybody know if any police agency does anything at all to try to catch these theives? I'd say that I get about 4 or 5 of these phishing emails per day! That's on top of the 3 or 4 bogus eBay phishing emails I get each day. Since these things come each and every day, and have done so for months and months, I have to assume that there is no "downside" for these scum of the earth criminals. I'm yet to ever read about a single person prosecuted for these scams. I don't know about you, but to me there's something very wrong with this picture!
 
A lot of these come from countries that the US has no formal agreements with to prosecute, nor do the countries of origin care to prosecute. It is good for there economy. I was told that the Nigerian government was warned that if they didn't put a stop to the Nigerian scams that were being run, that the US would cut of all aid to them. The scams never stopped, nor has the aid. Our government really doesn't care about identity theft, or they would do a lot more to eliminate it and prosecute those that traffic in it. One of the first things that they could do would to tighten up on the social security number requirements. It is said that it isn't for identification purposes, but that is exactly what it is being used for in business and industry today. There are still states that use your social security number for a drivers license.
 
Junkman said:
Our government really doesn't care about identity theft, or they would do a lot more to eliminate it and prosecute those that traffic in it.
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Ding Ding Ding....We have a winner!!!!! :applause:

I believe you hit it dead on!


P.S. I'm glad to see you up and around. Is that little pillow still a good friend? :thumb:
 
Dargo, I've been getting a very similar letter from 3 different banks. Never even had accounts at 2 of them. And I totally agree with you and Junk that the government doesn't care about ID theft. Nor do they really care about spam. Or anything regarding the internet . . . except how to figure out how to tax it and the goods/services sold over it.
 
I always answer them when I rarely do get them. The user name is something like fluck you and the password continues with like language.
 
Clicking on a link is enough to expose you to a back door key logger Trojan or other type of problems. It might make you feel good for the moment, but they might take particular delight in checking out the inside of your hard drive while you are asleep.....
 
Damn!! It's a record! My "Flagstar Bank" account was "flagged" 3 times so far today! :toilet: WTF is up with this shit?! I'd say that 3/4 of my email is bullshit scams. It really pisses me off that there are so many people trying to steal from me. They apparently have no downside to their scams. But, if I catch the little peckers and bet the living shit out of them; I'm the bad guy and I'd be put in jail. There's something very wrong with this cyber crime shit. I begin to take is personal when so many people are trying to steal from me. I wonder if a guy could get enough signatures on a petition to get out of jail if they went off and killed one of the scum bastards who stole money from them on one of these scams? I wouldn't blame them for doing so. I'm just sick of having no less than 8 or 10 attempts made daily to steal from me!
 
OhioTC18 said:
Forward them on to Flagstar Bank. They'll work to get the bogus sites shut down

abuse@flagstar.com
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I just sent them the last 60 that were in my "delete" box. If anyone cares there ought to be enough to keep them busy for a while.
 
Dargo said:
Damn!! It's a record! My "Flagstar Bank" account was "flagged" 3 times so far today! :toilet: WTF is up with this shit?! I'd say that 3/4 of my email is bullshit scams.
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Brent....buddy....chill! :respect:

You really need to get a spam filter installed on your email. Either at your server (Spamassassin) or your client (try Thunderbird, and start training it's adaptive filter). Ideally, you use both. I have both, and even though I get literally hundreds of emails a day, only two or three sneak their way into my Inbox, the rest are shuffled off to oblivion.
 
Flagstar replied:

Thank you for bringing the suspicious e-mail you received to our attention.
Holy shit, you got the mother load! Flagstar Bank would never send an unsolicited e-mail requesting
confidential information from its customers.

Please delete the e-mail from your inbox. Do not respond to it. If you are
a Flagstar Bank customer and have already answered the e-mail, please call
our Customer Service department at (800) 642-0039 immediately. If you are
not a Flagstar Bank customer, please contact your financial institution
immediately.

Identity theft and fraud are serious issues for us at Flagstar Bank, and we
will work aggressively with law enforcement officials to address every
suspected use of our name in a fraudulent manner.
======================================================================

Please do not respond to this e-mail. This e-mail box is used to collect
and track data relating to suspicious e-mail. If you suspect fraud has
occurred on your Flagstar Bank account, please call our Customer Service
department at (800) 642-0039 immediately. If you have other specific
questions relating to fraudulent
e-mail, please contact us at http://www.flagstar.com/secure/contact.jsp .







Well, I added one line....can you tell which? :)
 
You got the standard answer... Do you really think that they give a damn about you and identity theft? Even with the banks absorbing some of the costs of identity theft, they are still making lots of money, and could care less. The cost of eliminating these problems is greater than the amount of losses for the banks. You should start getting the phishing scam that says that the IRS has money for you and needs additional information to send it to you. Don't forget to answer that one, because we all know that the government works tirelessly to get money back into our hands... :yum:
 
I didn't get one from the IRS, but I did win 1 million Euro from the UN. Here's the proof I just got today:

Attention Dear Sir/Ma,

After several attempt to reach you by phone, I deemed it necessary and urgent to notify you finally about the outstanding settlement of your compensation winning fund that was given by United Nation to you. This compensation winning made for all the people that have transaction with Africans that lost their money along the line and after business failed, now the victims are given a lot of complains and report to the United Nation.

Now UN decided to give each of every one of you the sum of €1,000.000.00 euros to pay all your debts and start a new business and forget about the African transaction. That was the mean reason Kofi Anna; the formal secretary-general of the United Nation organized this West African Monitoring institution, just to regain the image of dear nation. We West African Monitoring institution has taken upon our selves to settle these very bills, because of the dubious attitude of the apex institution in Africa who have made things difficult to their dear client.

On the detailed verification and reconciliation of your file, it was crystal to us that you are the rightful beneficiary to the said fund which has been delayed due to lack of information about the position of this Fund that was made on your behalf for so long up till date.

However after our due checking of your file and it was satisfactory approved for payment that is why we contacted you for urgent release of your compensation winning fund? You have to disengage from any body or impersonated officers who claim to be in position of your fund, thereby misleading and having the opportunity to extort money from you. Because of this outstanding problem, the president committee on contractual matters has decided to pay this fund to you through our paying bank here ING BANK and also they can pay you via USA Bank of America or through our affiliate banks in Europe .

We have concluded all the necessary arrangement towards the release of your payment dispatching the senate in collaboration with federal ministry of finance has already deposited € 1,000.000.00 (One million Euro) for the revalidations payment. So, you are advice to forward you’re full name, contact address and direct telephone to our paying bank office In Benin as it is stated below.

ING BANK,
ADDRESS; AZOVE
ROUTE D’ ABOMEY-BP38
TEL/FAX +229-21-338080
Email; ingbank_paymentcentres@yahoo.fr
Contact person Dr. Benjamin KEREKU.

Contact the above information to enable them automates the information so as to give you urgent attention for the release of your compensation winning fund. You are hereby advice to stop contact with any body in regard to any transfer originated from Africa both your local representatives and so here on-now and adhere to our advice to get your fund paid.

Accept our congratulations in advance.

Gen. J. JOSHUA
 
Dargo, why don't you give them the customer service phone number at Crapital One and the name of the manager you spoke with as your contact information?
 
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