Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
The email message below with the subject: "New Craigslist Dating Message," which claims that the recipients have received new Craigslist dating message, is a phishing scam. The fake or phishing email message was NOT sent by Craigslist, but by scammers, who are attempting to trick their potential victims into visiting a phishing website that will steal their online accounts' username and passwords, personal and financial information. Therefore, recipients of the fraudulent email message should delete it and not follow the instructions into it.
From: w4m s3x Notification <a55a9ybfypmnam2765j2g1@ bde6126.jarcardarmar.com>Sent: Monday, July 4, 2016 8:04 PMSubject: New Craigslist Dating MessageYou have received:2 New MessagesFrom Craigslist w4m:This is an automated response.Thank you.
From: w4m s3x Notification <a55a9ybfypmnam2765j2g1@ bde6126.jarcardarmar.com>Sent: Monday, July 4, 2016 8:04 PMSubject: New Craigslist Dating Message
You have received:
2 New Messages
From Craigslist w4m:
This is an automated response.
Thank you.
The link in the phishing email message goes to the following phishing or fake website:
But, the cybercriminals may change the link to go to other phishing or fake websites.
3
Do you have to have an active craigslist acct to be able to receive these phishing emails?
No, I do not have membership with Craigslist and yet I have received an almost identical email from w4m s3x Notification
No. The scammers just send them randomly to a list of email addresses they have.
