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Phishy looking o2 offer text = Scam/Phishing Site ?

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  • 09-10-2011 7:48pm
    #1
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 9,044 ✭✭✭


    Hello fellow boardsters.

    A friend of mine who is with o2, received a text on their mobile earlier today,
    which says the following:

    "Upgrade your O2 to make unlimited free calls to any network, click on this link 
    http://o2upgrade.c.la
    or copy and paste on your broswer"

    The site looks like a copy of the o2 site, but the Text in the menu items are not displaying properly, so i'd be 99% sure its a phishing site.

    Clicking on an menu item will take you to the actual o2 site, which is even more deceiving.

    It asks you immediately for your name and password.

    FYI The number it was sent from was 0868471409, this is not my friends number btw.

    Give a heads up to anyone you know on o2 to avoid going to that site.


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    Trevor451
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Trevor451


    waveform wrote: »
    Hello fellow boardsters.

    A friend of mine who is with o2, received a text on their mobile earlier today,
    which says the following:

    "Upgrade your O2 to make unlimited free calls to any network, click on this link 
    http://o2upgrade.c.la
    or copy and paste on your broswer"

    The site looks like a copy of the o2 site, but the Text in the menu items are not displaying properly, so i'd be 99% sure its a phishing site.

    Clicking on an menu item will take you to the actual o2 site, which is even more deceiving.

    It asks you immediately for your name and password.

    FYI The number it was sent from was 0868471409, this is not my friends number btw.

    Give a heads up to anyone you know on o2 to avoid going to that site.

    Yup. Its a phishing site:

    Have a look here:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056391597


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    #3
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 9,044 ✭✭✭Doge


    Trevor451 wrote: »
    Yup. Its a phishing site:

    Have a look here:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056391597


    Cheers Trev, didn't spot it on the first page of threads so assumed it was new,
    too lazy to search hehe! ;)


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    #4
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    And you've probably posted some ordinary joe soaps number to the web.


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