Beware of Phishing Attempts

Beware of phishing/spoof E-mail attempts. One of our readers just told us that he received an e-mail from someone pretending to be Swoopo, he says that the e-mail wasn’t even sent to the address he used when registering. We have also heard that this has been happening with fake e-mails from people posing to be RockyBid.

I`m very sorry for disturbing you ! I’m the member of swoopo.com and i want to ask you if you are still interested in this product: (LINK WAS HERE)
Because the winning bidder was unable to pay for it . So if are you still interested please reply me with your best price .

Thank you and have a good day.

Here’s Swoopo’s response:

Thanks for taking the time to get in touch.

I’m glad you contacted us about this. The email that you received is not an email
from us. Such emails, also called “Phishing” or “Spoofing” emails are sent in
order to illegally obtain confidential information such as passwords or credit
card details. Please be highly suspicious if you’re asked in an email for such
confidential data!
Payments to Swoopo can only be made via the www.swoopo.com website. Please don’t
respond to any emails, which ask you to transfer money via direct debit or Western
Union.
The likely reason that you can’t register with that name is because it matches
your email address. We advise users against using the same username as the prefix
of their email address because phishing scammers can take the username from the
website (which is readily visible on the front screen) and add
@gmail/@hotmail/@yahoo etc. to it and pretend to be Swoopo customer service asking
for credit card details. You could try to register with that username from a
different email address, or vice versa. If you are still having trouble then
please email back and we will look into it further.

I hope this clears things up, but if not, please don’t hesitate to get back in
touch. You’ll also find lots of helpful information at http://www.swoopo.com/help.html

Discuss Swoopo Phishers in the forum.

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