Stupid Futureshit
Posted by: mike in Scams 'n Spams
Thursday, September 13th 2007 at 10:34pm
Le sigh.... I received an email today with the subject "Important information about fraudulent email". The fact that it made it through my spam filter without a valid sender, was actually interesting. So I decided to read it. It purported to be a notification about phishing and have some detail about a scam pretending to be from futureshop and requiring your credit card number.
The interesting thing here is that there were some links embedded in the text. Now if you pull up the picture there, you'll see that the links don't go to future shop. They actually look pretty fishy... dcm5.com???? I started wondering if this was a strange phishing scam trying to pass itself off as a warning about the very act of phishing!
So I took some action. I emailed futureshop and politely informed them that if this really was a warning about phishing, having shady emails and links wasn't really the way to go about it. I also said that if this wasn't a real email, I'd be concerned about the fact it seemed very targeted at a specific group. Anyway, to finish off the story I got a dumbass boiler-plate message stating this was an actual email from them. At this point I got snarky and told them to shape up their act when they send out warning emails (as if they'd listen to me anyway). Morons...
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Anesthetic Wrote...
Thursday, September 13th 2007 at 11:08pm
time to start talking to people higher up than the shithead who said STFU when you pointed out how pathetic their warning was, and how very similar to scams it appeared itself. Take names as you climb the complaint ladder, and watch the well-deserved ball of team hot upper management shit steamroll the rude slackers below them. I'd be doing that.
SmrtySsa Wrote...
Friday, September 14th 2007 at 12:05am
the floater is broke...
but.. dcm5 is a mass emailer service that futureshop uses. Yes, it's legit - that's why it made it through the spam filters.
But, I definitely agree that it's bad practice and fishy to embed the 'fishy' tracking links in an email warning about ... well.. fishy links.
korkas Wrote...
Friday, September 14th 2007 at 8:54am
I just sent Future Shop an email asking if the email was real, etc (this was after reading your post). I then went on to tell them I cancelled all my credit cards and was taking my computer in to be looked at to make sure it didn't have any viruses, because I was worried that this 'dcm5' link gave my computer viruses.
In any event, we'll see the response! I actually just called the number they provided in the message, and asked if the email was fake, and he said 'if it didn't link to futureshop.ca, it's not trustworthy'. I said it leads to some 'dcm5.com website' and he said 'that's not us'.
Unbelievable!
mike Wrote...
Friday, September 14th 2007 at 3:19pm
Get this... they replied with the SAME FUCKING EMAIL after my second complaint. Oh, and they sent me another copy of the original notice, but this time it actually said it was from "Future Shop".
Ah, corporations.
SmrtySsa Wrote...
Friday, September 14th 2007 at 3:27pm
I just got a second one too.. fuckin idiots :)
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mike Wrote...
Thursday, September 13th 2007 at 10:34pm
Glad to see the magic thumbnail floater works well :)