I have just received the following warning from NetRegistry:
"This week, several Australian domain and web hosting providers were the target of phishing attacks. It means that some scam emails were sent to our customers.
The email is easy to identify as it:
Comes from invoice@netregistry.com.au.tascsa.net.au
Starts with “Hi Dear”, not your first name
Asks you to “renew your order: $14.85 AUD”
Has a red “CLICK HERE” button that takes you to a URL that doesn’t include “netregistry.com.au”
Is signed off by “Cody Wheaton” and/or “Billing Manager”
The hilarious thing about it is the scam asks for a normal domain registration renewal amount (as measured from any other registrar). NetRegistry / Melbourne IT would normally charge about $75.
Thanks for posting that - I received the same. The spams and scams are coming through “thick and fast” these days! I spend my first half hour of the day reporting and filtering them.
Here’s another phishing scam that’s doing the rounds:
For a lot of cases, not necessarily this one,
“Those spelling mistakes are often an attempt to fool the algorithm into ‘thinking’ that it deals with a new words. When the algorithm gets a feedback from users marking those messages as spam, it adds those misspelled words or word patterns to its anti-spam filters.” [1]
In general, “Perfectly written copy actually converts less than copy with slight mistakes - most people don’t write perfectly and there’s a subconscious affinity with writers seeming more “like them” if it’s not perfect.” [2]
Maybe less people report it and just delete it when it is obvious, so it has a longer “shelf life”.
