| A. Fake email address Most fraud email senders may send emails with forged email addresses-some of them appear to be real email addresses of Alibaba.com (E.G: From Alibaba@alibaba-inc.com From: Alibaba Inc, Alibaba Department). The "From" field of an email can easily be altered - it is not a reliable indicator of the true origin of the email. B. Non-personal, general greetings C. Stress urgency and threaten your Alibaba account status C-1 ? Claim your account was suspended or that you need to verify your account by inputting information about your member ID and password or credit card without any explanation of the reasons; C-2 ? Try and scare you into "urgent action" by threatening that your account will be suspended or closed if you do not follow their instructions and submit sensitive personal information as soon as possible. C-3 ? Include incorrect English, unprofessional expressions C-4 ? Make reference to a User Agreement in order to seem more legitimate D. Fake links or URL address E. Fake feedback forms F. Fake Alibaba signatures  More Samples |
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Re: How to Spot Fraud Email
by smiling4u03 on 25 Mar 2008 10:07
Replying to [Admin]:Dear madame or Sire
I have paid 1095$ for Iphones. However these person never send me the items he's name Lee Steven here is the company website
http://photo.163.com/photos/wengyongshou/#p5
please help to get back my money.
thanks
Karin Tivoli
Re: How to Spot Fraud Email
by China Hong Kong on 16 Apr 2008 20:45
Quoting from [Admin]:
A. Fake email address
Most fraud email senders may send emails with forged email addresses-some of them appear to be real email addresses of Alibaba.com (E.G: From Alibaba@alibaba-inc.com From: Alibaba Inc, Alibaba Department).
The "From" field of an email can easily be altered - it is not a reliable indicator of the true origin of the email.B. Non-personal, general greetings
Most fraud emails start with a general greeting such as "Dear Alibaba Member" or "Dear Alibaba User" etc, while emails from Alibaba.com generally start with your First name and Last name.C. Stress urgency and threaten your Alibaba account status
Most fraud emails:C-1 ? Claim your account was suspended or that you need to verify your account by inputting information about your member ID and password or credit card without any explanation of the reasons;
C-2 ? Try and scare you into "urgent action" by threatening that your account will be suspended or closed if you do not follow their instructions and submit sensitive personal information as soon as possible.
C-3 ? Include incorrect English, unprofessional expressions
C-4 ? Make reference to a User Agreement in order to seem more legitimate
D. Fake links or URL address
Most fraud emails have links included for you to update or submit information-remember that these links can be forged too. Remember if Alibaba requests information from you, we will always direct you back to the Alibaba site. Please do not click the links or URL in any emails to update or submit information.E. Fake feedback forms
Many fraud emails ask you to submit sensitive information such as member ID and password, credit card details etc by clicking a link or completing a form which is very similar with those at Alibaba.com. Through this ploy, the perpetrators attempted to hijack private and confidential information from Alibaba members.F. Fake Alibaba signatures
As many fraudsters have received or have access to Alibaba's emails it is easy for them to copy our signatures to their fraud emails in order to seem more legitimate.
Please advise me this services is free or need pay
Charles
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