Uni.com "free gift" e-mail is a SCAM.

*bump*

This should probably stay close to the top of the list for a while.

Any word on how their email lists were compromised?

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Wonder if it's related to the server comprimise they had back in July of
2003?

Quoted message said:

From: "Unicycle.com" <[email hidden]>
To: [email hidden]
Subject: Security breach
Date-Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 8:35 AM -0700

Greetings.

We installed a new computer in our system on Friday, and it appears
that
our system was compromised by a hacker this weekend. Please be
assured
that since credit card information is collected on a different system
with
secure ordering, your financial information remains secure.

We apologize for this breach. We have installed additional safeguards
to
ensure that this doesn't happen again.

If you are contacted by anyone claiming to represent Unicycle.com,
especially someone requesting credit card information, please DO NOT
reply
or give that information.

If you have questions, please email us at [email hidden], or
call
us at 1-800-864-2925.

Best regards,
John Drummond
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1-800-Unicycle

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Thanks for posting that Steve, that will be good to know especially
since the holidays are comming around.

-Sabin

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Unicycie.com is down...I wanted to check it out.🙁

Which one of you DoS'd it? 😄

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Here is a screen shot of the phishing email. If you didn't receive it,
have no fear. You can still enjoy their really pathetic attempt at
phishing. I think a 4th grade US student could write a better phishing
email. It's obvious that this stuff is from countries where English is
not the native language.

There are spelling errors (recive instead of receive), poor grammar,
poor wording, poor punctuation, lousy HTML, gratuitous use of large
fonts, and lousy HTML. It's pathetic all the way around. I like the
line where they say this offer is only going out to customers that are
more than one year old. What about the babies?

How do they expect something so poorly written and presented to actually
work? I've seen much better phishing scams. This one ranks as one of
the worst executed.

I apologize for the high resolution of the attached image. It's 766x901
pixels. I shrank it as much as I could while still keeping it on one
screen shot.

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| Attachment filename: phishingemail.gif |
|Download attachment: http://www.unicyclist.com/attachment/239091|
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Ah.....

Thanks John, I needed that.

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TheObieOne3226 said:

*Ah.....

Thanks John, I needed that. *

On a certain level, it is quite funny. My regret is that I never got to
see the web page at unicycie.com. That page was taken down before I was
able to see it. I'm sure it was done just as poorly as the email.

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I agree that it is funny. As long as nobody got ripped off by it. But if
someone did get ripped off by it....well you know where I'm going with
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If someone did get ripped off by it, I feel really bad for them. Perhaps
that was the lesson they needed, having not noticed any of the other
advice that's been passing over their heads for the past year or more,
to not give out sensitive personal or financial information to
questionable sources. Fortunately that bogus email was looking *very*
questionable.

It's kind of reassuring to know that, though that email list was
compromised, the thieves didn't have the skills to come up with
something better to use to rip people off. Notice it appears to have
been done from outside the USA. Though bad grammar is rampant here, I
get the feeling this was an outside job.

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The bozos are at it again. They sent out another phishing email. The
same as the first. You'd think they would have read my critique and
corrected their spelling errors. But no.

The new scamming URL is
http://www.unlcycle.com/
That is
http://WWW.UNLCYCLE.COM/ it starts with UNL rather than uni

The scam URL is still up right now too
http://tinyurl.com/4dg5s

Anyone know who to contact to get this new web site taken down?

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I was guessing that it was a scam. And I knew it was a scam when they
asked for a credit card#. I like where they say, Thank you because you
choosed to be a unicycle customer.🙄

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i got that email i thought nothing of it because i dont trust the
internet

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I got another one today. This one wants to send you to unlcycle.com
(where the 'i' is replaced by an 'l'😉. Looking up these domains with
"whois" reveals that the registrars have USA addresses.

unicycie.com is registered to an Annette Albring of Toledo, Ohio.

unlcycle.com is registered to a Bruce Kinsey of Marysville, Ohio.

If these people are involved in the scam, they are sure wide open to
prosecution. Maybe these are fake identities for some overseas
operation. Maybe the names and addresses are taken from unicycle.com's
customer list, and the registrations were paid for using their stolen
credit card numbers.

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only one way to find out,
Give them a call... luckly bruce is registed in the yellow pages

Bruce Kinsey

Marysville, OH 43040-8812
(937) 644-9538

Annette Albring's info is avalibele through Intellius.com but I dont
want to put up the $8 to get her records.

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Checkernuts said:

*Annette Albring's info is avalibele through Intellius.com but I dont
want to put up the $8 to get her records. *

The whois records have the info:
http://www.coolwhois.com/d/unicycie.com
http://www.coolwhois.com/d/unlcycle.com

Most likely they are the victims of fraud by falling for a similar scam.

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OK I just called both of them. I got answering machines in both cases,
and left detailed messages, along with my phone number. Bruce's
voicemail greeting sounds like a regular family voicemail greeting,
giving his name and family member names. I bet they're unicyclists.

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The scammer might not have access to unicycle.com's customer list. All
they need is to get email addresses of unicyclists and you have a good
chance of sending the fraudulent email to a unicycle.com customer.

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Bruce Kinsey just called me back. It was the first he'd heard of any of
this. He isn't a unicyclist and he has never bought anything from
unicycle.com. None of the unLcycle.com "whois" information is his, other
than his name/address/phone#. The crystaltech.com email address isn't
his. He doesn't think there are any unexplained charges on his credit
cards. Sounds like the scammers just grabbed his name/address/phone# out
of some public listing such as the phone book.

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dogfeathersvt said:

*Bruce Kinsey just called me back. It was the first he'd heard of any
of this. He isn't a unicyclist and he has never bought anything from
unicycle.com. None of the unLcycle.com "whois" information is his,
other than his name/address/phone#. The crystaltech.com email address
isn't his. He doesn't think there are any unexplained charges on his
credit cards. Sounds like the scammers just grabbed his
name/address/phone# out of some public listing such as the phone book.
*

The domain under his name was just purchased yesterday... so, it's
likely that it's not showing on his credit card yet as that usually
takes a day or two to show up.

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