[Tdinoz]

Beware of fake LR emails doing the rounds this week DO NOT CLICK the link as they will likely lead to a phishing site. I've received 2 in last 6 hours to an email address I don't use with LR.

Dead giveaway is they don't address you by your first name and really all account holders should know this already!! Indeed there should be no need for me to post this heads up. Yet I still do as these emails fool people over and over again, for some reason.

Real liberty reserve email has this.
Please note that in all e-mails from Liberty Reserve we will:
Always address you by your first name.
Never send you any links or attached files.
Never ask you to send us your password and/or login PIN.

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The content on the fake ones reads like this below

from LIberty Reserve Support <no_reply@libertyreserve.com>
to td
date Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:53 AM
subject Scheduled Maintenance - 16 August, 11:00 GMT, Verify and update as soon
mailed-by tundra.websitewelcome.com


Please note that in all e-mails from Liberty Reserve we will:
Never send you any links (except account activation e-mail) or attached files.
Never ask you to send us your password and/or login PIN.
============================================

Dear Sir/Madam,

Liberty Reserve always look forward for the high security of our clients. During our regularly scheduled
account maintenance and verification procedures, we have detected a slight error in your account information.
This might be due to either of the following reasons:

1. A recent change in your personal information.
2. Submitting invalid information during the initial sign in process.

Due to this, you are requested to please update and verify your information by clicking the link below:
Live link removed
libertyreserve dot com / en / update / jps.

*Important*
We have asked few additional information which is going to be the part of secure login process. These additional
information will be asked during your future login security so, please provide all these info completely and
correctly otherwise due to security reasons we may have to close your account temporarily.

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended
to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience.


Security Advisor
Liberty Reserve

[jambutty]

First of all I KNOW that the email is a fake simply because it came to an email address that LR doesn’t know about.

A genuine email from LR, like what you get when your first open an account with them starts off like this:
Please note that in all e-mails from Liberty Reserve we will:
Always address you by your first name.
Never send you any links or attached files.
Never ask you to send us your password and/or login PIN.

This fake email reads like this:
Dear Sir or Madam,
Thank you for using a Liberty Reserve service. This letter was sent to validate your Liberty Reserve account.

As you may have noticed, Liberty Reserve's website was offline or undergoing various software upgrades a few weeks ago because of the need to apply some new security updates to the system. Everything is OK now but we need you to confirm your account with us. Please click on the following link and verify your account info by filling the form. This is done because there is a chance that some accounts do not function properly with the newly updated system and we would like to ensure that you are the genuine holder of the account. In case you don't fill all the fields, and an internal system conflict occurs between your account and system database, your Liberty Reserve account will be locked down for an unknown period of time.
We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.
Please click on the following link to verify your account:

http://www.libertysreserve.com/en/customer/verify/

If you want any more evidence of a fake email look closely at the URL. There is an “s” between the words liberty and reserve and of course it starts off with http:// No “s”.

If you are curious enough to use the supplied URL you will see a rather unusual opening page.

It asks for your account number, your password, your Master Key/Security PIN and your Login PIN. So I filled in the various fields with false information, namely some choice expletives, which is only fitting seeing as the web site was false and sent it off to the dork and the real LR web page - https://www.libertyreserve.com/en/ - came up.

All the other links on the page go to the real LR web site.

Whoever produced this fake web site is a real amateur, but it could still fool some people.

I’ve sent the fake email to LR for their analysis.

[Tdinoz]

Your game I steer clear of finding out what's on the other end of those links in case they try to leave something nasty on my computer. Never had anything nasty on there as yet ... touch wood. I did receive a couple of dodgy emails this month as well, but worded a bit different.
http://www.talkgold.com/forum/showth...ng#post2659556

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by Tdinoz

Your game I steer clear of finding out what's on the other end of those links in case they try to leave something nasty on my computer. Never had anything nasty on there as yet ... touch wood. I did receive a couple of dodgy emails this month as well, but worded a bit different.
http://www.talkgold.com/forum/showth...ng#post2659556

My Zone Alarm Suite interrogates each web site URL that I go to and automatically quarantines anything nasty. So it wasn’t such a huge risk. Of course there is always the unknown new nasty.

Phishing emails allegedly from LR are a new experience for me. I get plenty for E-Gold and even high street banks and E-Bay so they get dumped. But I wanted to find out more about the LR one.

Maybe you would consider merging the two threads and maybe even making it sticky so that it doesn’t get buried?

[geoff01]

Maybe you would consider merging the two threads

I`ve merged the threads.

These e-mails are just so obvious. I never click on the links. It`s so funny when I get e-mails from institutions I`m not even a member of.

[justaman]

I think a person should be a stupid to click on such kind of links. It`s just another spammers tricks.

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by geoff01

I`ve merged the threads.

These e-mails are just so obvious. I never click on the links. It`s so funny when I get e-mails from institutions I`m not even a member of.

They are to you and me and others with experience, but there are a million newbies out there who believe what they read especially if the email looks official and many do look genuine.

I know that the millions of newbies out there do not come to this forum but if a phishing email warning is read by just one newbie and prevents a loss of their money then it will be worthwhile.

[sundulhyip]

thanks for the information.
i received the fake email too.

[MoneyExplorer]

I`ve received such mails before, its a bad thing, Im lucky that I didn`t click on it.

[chicagostepper]

can't a follow-up to the url be done to find these thiefs, it seems something can be done, because I know some person somewhere have gave them all their personal info and have been robbed by these scammers?