This is an im****tant warning to all homebrewers. There is a strong
possibility that someone is harvesting email addresses from one or more
homebrewing forums and is using a fake website to plant malware or
exploit visitors in a phi****ng scheme. In order for this possible
scheme to work, homebrewers would be targeted and the rogue site would
be made to appear like a legitimate site of interest, in this case "Sam
Adams". This is why I'm suspicious and posting this warning; today I
received the following email from estore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...:
***Begin***
Bill Velek
Here is your login information for the bostonbeer.com Web site.
Email : billvelek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
If you would like to change the password indicated above please follow
the link below.
http://businessflow.cas07.mainstreetcommerce.com/3.9.4/checkout/customer_resetpass.aspx?domain=bostonbeer.com&customer_guid=37efa99f-1d1b-4522-90e3-fde1d7cdc498
You can access your customized information by entering the login
information above when asked.
http://216.139.237.127/
***End***
Because I couldn't recall making any attempts to register on that site,
and because the use of an IP address is a telltale sign of phi****ng
efforts, I decided to investigate by manually entering the URL for
bostonbeer.com ... which took me to a site that _looks_ like a
legitimate Samuel Adams site. But knowing how easy it is to copy a
site, and that most phishers will usually try to trick visitors by
making things look as authentic a possible, I did some more digging.
First, Sam Adams already has a website under the name of
www.samueladams.com ... so why would they have two different names?
Second, I did a whois check on the above IP address, and it is _NOT_
registered to Samuel Adams, but instead is registered to Southwest
Ventures in Austin, Texas, whereas the official www.samueladams.com site
is actually registered to the Boston Beer Company in Massachusetts.
Here are links to the two 'WhoIs' searches that I did:
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?ip=216.139.237.127
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=samueladams.com
This is _mighty_ suspicious, so I've notified the Sam Adams company and
asked for verification; meanwhile, I caution everyone to be very leery
of any such emails.
Cheers.
Bill Velek - PERSONAL sites = www.velek.com & www.2plus2is4.com
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