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Hour Advance Loan Approval Department Phishing Scam

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Hour Advance Loan Approval Department Phishing Scam

Another phishing e-mail has popped up. This time phishers are using "Hour Advance", a giant lender network that offers US$1000 Personal Loans in as fast as 1 Hour. The e-mail was sent from this spoofed e-mail address "Loan Approval Department (office83872@replatgrey.info)" and has the subject "Loan Approval Department". If you click on any of the links in this e-mail message, you will be redirected to http://metaas.info/80445/SXK74560, which is a spyware and malicious website.

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Here is a copy of the malicious e-mail message

Hour Advance Phishing Scam E-mail

Also, there is another link in the malicious e-mail asking if you want to opt-out of their mailing list; this link takes you to the website below.

Malicious website stealing e-mail addresses

Please do not submit your e-mail address because, it maybe used for spamming. Delete this e-mail message immediately, if it was sent to you.

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Aug. 29, 2012 at 1:37 AM by an anonymous user from: Panama City, Panamá, Panama

has anyone attemped to joe-job the clinents of injury attorneys, bible quote of the day, etc? If these people get 1000 fake names and addresses and phone numbers everyday, it would waste their time and drop the Flamingo LLC people? Everyhing they sell look like ripoffs to me

Aug. 2, 2012 at 3:17 PM by an anonymous user from: Kingston, Jamaica

Do not use the unsubscribe links in the e-mail messages because, you can be redirected to a malicious website and get your computer infected with a malicious program without you knowning.

Secondly, as you have said, your email address can be sold or use to send more spam or malicious emails to you.

Aug. 2, 2012 at 2:20 PM by an anonymous user from: Fairport, New York, United States

I've been receiving 2 or 3 a day. At first, I just sent them to spam. Then I opened each one and followed the "unsubscribe" hoping that this would put an end to this garbage.. cumbersome and such a waste of time! I still kept getting them. I responded to a couple w/ threatening messages... still nothing. I finally wrote with snail mail to the flamingo rd address mentioned.. my letter was returned saying "address does not exist".. I give up! Now I'm afraid everytime I unsubscribed w/ my email address, they sold it to other crooks... UGH.. So the best we can do is send to spam?

Jul. 26, 2012 at 11:02 PM by an anonymous user from: Kingston, Jamaica

Punishing people who are responsible for these malicious acts are hard to do. These people can be anywhere in the world and can move from one location to another, in a few minutes. The FBI and other law enforcers, both locally and internationally have been able to shutdown most of these operations. But it is hard to stop these people because technology makes it easy to do these malicious acts.

Jul. 26, 2012 at 9:13 PM by an anonymous user from: Los Angeles, California, United States

How can we put this crook in jail?

Jul. 25, 2012 at 12:25 PM by info

The only thing you can do right now, is to filter the e-mail messages as Spam/Junk.

Jul. 25, 2012 at 10:48 AM by an anonymous user from: Richmond, Virginia, United States

I too receive 2 or 3 unsolicited & unwanted "junk e-mails a day from the above and unsubscribe to no avail. I copy the fcc with each one, also to no avail.What's the answer?

Jul. 16, 2012 at 1:32 PM by an anonymous user

Now I'm trapped - they have my address...the one that I've had for years and years! AUGH! I too continue to get up to 10 emails a day and am not sure how to stop it as they all come from different "addresses" but are obviously all from this same sender. Scum

Jul. 12, 2012 at 8:01 AM by an anonymous user

Stop sending me your dam addvertising.

Jul. 9, 2012 at 11:24 PM by an anonymous user

I've been receiving about 3 spam emails a day from "SCF, LLC - 1350 E. Flamingo Road #700," advertising everything from phony "cures" for diabetes to ambulance-chasing lawyers. I haven't seen any emails so far that link to malicious sites, but it doesn't surprise me at all that they'd be involved in phishing.

Emails are typically routed through servers in Romania.

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