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revchrisI just called CitiBank to ask them about an email I had just received.
It purports to be from CitiBank, and says 'We've got this new bill-paying service, and you're going to have to sign up for it, so please give us your credit card info.'
Like I'm going to put any useful information into a web site that comes from an email, let alone one that leads to a site with only an IP number for a URL, even if it has links to the real CitiBank services. If it was a real CitiBank service, they'd send me to their web site and make me log into my account (where they already know my card number) to set it up.
The rep I talked to says that they have a whole department (read: buildings full of lawyers, and a bunch of large violent thug-types (who they don't admit to having working for them)) just to deal with things like that. He then told me to forward it to spoof@citicorp.com. I thanked him for the info and told him that since the referenced site still worked, I figured they hadn't heard about it yet.
It purports to be from CitiBank, and says 'We've got this new bill-paying service, and you're going to have to sign up for it, so please give us your credit card info.'
Like I'm going to put any useful information into a web site that comes from an email, let alone one that leads to a site with only an IP number for a URL, even if it has links to the real CitiBank services. If it was a real CitiBank service, they'd send me to their web site and make me log into my account (where they already know my card number) to set it up.
The rep I talked to says that they have a whole department (read: buildings full of lawyers, and a bunch of large violent thug-types (who they don't admit to having working for them)) just to deal with things like that. He then told me to forward it to spoof@citicorp.com. I thanked him for the info and told him that since the referenced site still worked, I figured they hadn't heard about it yet.
