Wachovia phishes and closets

[scyllacat]

I keep getting email that appears to be phish (after all, it is not coming to the email address that I GAVE Wachovia) and it says that they are creating Wachovia Connections to combine all of Wachovia services for online users.

I just looked up Wachovia Connections on google, and there it is:  wc.wachovia.com or something like that.

I will not put anything into it, just in case.  I couldn't help but think it was a really clever new move by phishers to TELL people we're sending you this email because you HAVE to log in at a different site; since wonky web addresses do tend to be a dead giveaway.

I just logged in to Wachovia.  No sign of "Wachovia Connections."  Something phishy here, a lot.

In other news, I just pulled 4 2-1/2" nails out of my mother's closet wall. put big gouges in the sheetrock for one of them.  It's not that the closet rod hangers weren't put in well... they're even of high quality.  You just can't give my mother 7 feet of closet rod anchored at only two points.  She's not capable of respecting its natural limits.

On the other hand, it makes me wonder if the closet stuff I picked out is going to come close to being strong enough.  There's a crack in the wall.  A big crack.  Which I'd like to think is house settling, but I fear is the result of her closet rod attempting to pull the walls down.

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[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

I learned a long time ago that anything in the house that needs to stay up for any significant length of time needs to be anchored to the studs with deck screws. Drywall anchors almost always fail me at one point or another.

(I have a LOT of books at home, enough that I've more than once seriously considered cataloging them all just so I can find the ones I need when I need them. I've been known to completely cover all four walls of a room with bookshelves, leaving openings only for doors and (sometimes) windows. Books are heavy. I've had shelves come off the wall and fall on me a few times. Not fun. :)

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

What is deck screw?

Well, yeah, I had two problems with the situation, actually. The first was that there were not ENOUGH supports. The second was that they were put in with nails instead of screws. Which is what I'm trying to correct, on both counts, now.

[garybaldy.livejournal.com]

Deck screws are basically just longer drywall screws with a wider and deeper thread pattern. Any hardware store will have them.

Also you can pick up center supports for long shelves and closet rods.

[garybaldy.livejournal.com]

You know whats really sad. Was painting a house many years ago. And the single male resident. Had used the drywall anchors in his wood shelving kit in THE WOOD shelve.

That was my final straw in my belief that some people should NEVER be allowed to own or use any tools.

[hanov3r.livejournal.com]

The "new Wachovia URL" probably looks something like "http://commercial.wachovia.online765406931.wcyy.indexrebuild.asp.MainUrl.paymentServices.sppsvwelcome.FinancialBusiness.a
ction68041496.Login.snkmzpl.com/Service.htm". Note that that's not in any domain owned by Wachovia, "snkmzpl.com" is anonymously registered, and the hostname resolves to a couple of dozen consumer broadband IPs all over Europe... so, yeah, probably not a good idea to give them any information.

Now, if you were to go to Wachovia's website and navigate over to their Connection Express webpage (which appears to be a business-class tool, not consumer-oriented), that would be a different story...

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. No problem there. One of my basic rules is NOT to respond to unsolicited email, particularly from "businesses," and I rarely click the links, just to see that they give me one of those Obviously Not Legit URLs, but mostly I don't bother.

But I wasn't sure if Wachovia Connection existed, so you've figured that out for us, and it's all good. :)

I can't say I've never done ANYTHING stupid in my life, computer-wise, but being a reporter taught me always to confirm things from more than one source, and if you CAN'T, you say, So-and-so says/claims/explains/believes/tells us, etc.... When it comes from someone I don't even know and can't verify exists, then that possibility is eliminated.

Of course, I'm mildly paranoid. Have you ever gotten somewhere and it didn't look like you expected? Like a party, but the house is dark? And you check the address and the time and the date to make sure you are right to expect there to be a party there? I would always think, Now, who told me there was a party here? Was it just the one person? Did I confirm it with any of my friends, or call the host?

Because, you see, I was the type of dork that people would lie to, just to see how stupid and pitiful they looked when they realized they hadn't been invited to a party.

When I first started on the Internet, it was full of people like that. It was only when normals, who were never fucked with as part of their daily lives, got on the web, that phishes could even be realistically expected to have any success at all. :)

(If you saw this twice, it was posted anonymously first. How did I get logged out? *sigh*)

[garybaldy.livejournal.com]

I used to go out of my way. To forward phishing attempts to the appropriate people. Even with companies i did not do business with. Say i received a phishing attempt from a wumu knockoff. I would forward it to abuse@whoever. With any other info i got with like the headers Etc.


But after being treated like an idiot every single time. I do not bother anymore. I always get some BS form email in response telling how not to click on the links or give any info. WTF

Instead of a thank you. I get an idiot email.

[wonderbink.livejournal.com]

I don't suspect they have time or manpower to tell the difference between somebody who might think it's legit and someone who knows it isn't and wants them to know, so it's faster and easier to ping back a form letter that covers the former possibility.

I don't even write anything when I forward the things, just forward it to "spoof@companynamehere.com" and hope it helps.

And I've been getting a number of those fake Wachovia emails. I don't even HAVE a Wachovia account!

[garybaldy.livejournal.com]

I do get a kick out of the phishing emails from companies i do not have any relation too


One way to drive phishers up the wall. is to enter fake user name and passwords. I do it all the time. Reloading the page several times. Just when they think they fooled someone they get punked.