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Phishing email from Tumi

 

Hi all,

My wife got a 'thank you for her order' phishing email allegedly from Tumi (high-end luggage and bags). The email was sadly very clever. All the links pointed back to Tumi's real site. The supposedly-bought item was a real Tumi product. They were counting on people to call, because the given phone number differed from the real phone number, but only in the middle three digits (real phone number 800-299-8864, phishing phone number: 800-781-8864).

Of course, they couldn't guess the last four digits of one of our credit cards, and the sales tax was no sales tax from any place nearby, and the receipt was a 1990's-style fixed-width-font invoice (which would be doubtful for a fancy-pants place like Tumi), but still... an impressive effort.

Sad to see that phishing has become more, uh, professional.

Bill
 

I get phishing emails purportedly from PayPal. It seems I buy high end stuff and charge it to my PayPal account. According to these emails I have spent thousands of dollars on various stuff. I am happy to say, however, I have never had a PayPal account.
Beware my friends.

On Oct 11, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:

Hi all,

My wife got a 'thank you for her order' phishing email allegedly from Tumi (high-end luggage and bags). The email was sadly very clever. All the links pointed back to Tumi's real site. The supposedly-bought item was a real Tumi product. They were counting on people to call, because the given phone number differed from the real phone number, but only in the middle three digits (real phone number 800-299-8864, phishing phone number: 800-781-8864).

Of course, they couldn't guess the last four digits of one of our credit cards, and the sales tax was no sales tax from any place nearby, and the receipt was a 1990's-style fixed-width-font invoice (which would be doubtful for a fancy-pants place like Tumi), but still... an impressive effort.

Sad to see that phishing has become more, uh, professional.

Bill

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