FedChoice gone phishing.

Received yet another email scam. This one was a phishing site for FedChoice.org.

As you can see, this is the email. Plain and very simple. It is easy to mask your email to look like someone else sent it, but you need the right email service to do this with. When I clicked on the link, I was brought to www.fedchoice-profiles.org rather fedchoice.org, which is the correct site.

This is the first page that I was taken to.

"Need assistance logging in?" Sure! But where do I click? Its not a common thing to find great help sometimes... but I didn't think it was that hard to find. Yeah... I entered fake information and was brought to another page that was just areas to fill in personal information, such as full credit card information. Again... asking 16 digits, when some cards are less, depending the company you have the card with. Duh? Why would a company like this need your credit card? They have other means of going through your information in a more secure fashion...


Anyway, being the click happy person I am... I clicked everything! At the top, you'll find two bottons; Help Center and Contact Us. The Help Center link went NO WHERE. The contact page brought me to the page where you need to provide your credit card number and such. The second time, it brought me to the REAL contact page... shown below:
Notice how blue the page looks... and how the layout doesn't look like anything the phishing site shows. The Log-In box at the top... the colorful tabs... the url is simple... There is a lot more presentation to the actual site that has actual content. Remember, amateur phisher-men are not interested in what their site looks like in compared to the real thing... especially if its working for them.

Anyway... Looking back at the page where you submit your card details, etc... you are brought to this page: Again... from gray naked page to colorful and fully dressed page. Major difference between the two. Even if you are colorblind, there is no excuse! Its obvious to see that one site has a lot more going on than the other. Something phishy about it... But I emailed them and asked them what the deal was with their site. Barely 10 minutes later, someone wrote back to warn me it was a phishing attempt and that they were in the process of getting it taken care of.
Very good to know! And was very good response time from who ever wrote me back. :)

Don't answer things with out knowing why that information is necessary. Especially online. Once in a while, there will be actual LIVE HELP and they will get on a call with you... chances are, the caller ID is blocked, but if you have a really good one, it will say the company name. If it doesn't look like something you know, just be cautious about it. If the person asks you a series of questions you know they should have on file already, question them. Chances are, you'll ask them too many questions and they will hang up on you assuming you have figured them out.

Anyway, stay safe everyone. Thanks for viewing.