Wonga phishing emails

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olliebean
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Wonga phishing emails

#1 Post by olliebean »

I have recently been receiving phishing emails trying to get me to login to a fake Wonga website, which have been sent to the email address I used to sign up to this forum. I have never used this email address elsewhere. I don't know what the implications of this are on the security of your website, but I think it is something that warrants being brought to your attention.

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Anyone else encountered this? Personally, I haven't received such an email of late.

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None yet

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#4 Post by joby_toss »

I did receive spam mails from wonga, but I use this mail account on many forums...

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I have received a lot of these Wonga emails. :( My email address is publicly visible on the Internet, though...
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#7 Post by olliebean »

Yes, it's just a standard sort of phishing email, what caught my attention was that it was sent to my Portable Freeware email address. Usually these sorts of thing come to addresses I've used publicly, or just random addresses at my domain. I use unique addresses at websites I have accounts with, precisely so that if any of them "leak" my email address I can tell where the leak came from.

I've got "Users can contact me by email" selected on my profile - not sure if that makes my email address accessible to people scraping the site, without actually breaching security?

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None here. :mrgreen:

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#9 Post by JohnTHaller »

The Portable Freeware Collection database was hacked on July 5, 2012 and July 13, 2012. Usernames, emails and password hashes stolen during the hack were posted publicly online on August 23, 2012. As you were a member during that timeframe, your information was made public as well.

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#10 Post by olliebean »

Thanks, that explains it then.

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