Comments on: Ally Bank Phishing Scam

By: Isabella Antaya

Isabella Antaya — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:10:14 +0000

Hi their, I red that this antivirus is the most ifficient in the world but as I don’t know much about such softs, I’d need someone to give me an advice if possible thank you! Advice: If you are going to spam thousands of blog posts, have the sense to check your spelling and grammar first, twat!

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:36:23 +0000

I just learned of another organization fighting phishing, etc.

I had a Bank of America spoof, but found no BofA reporting address at its site. However, they did recommend forwarding spam etc to FTC spoof and the Anti-phishing Working Group .

This latter group is supported by several financial institutions. Reporting spam to these groups could save you digging for a direct address of a company.

Thanks for the info, Mel. I enjoyed reading your blog. BM.

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:06:01 +0000

You can fight back with a few minutes of your time.

Go to the website of the spoofed company and search within it for abuse, spam, spoof, or phishing. Often they will have an email address for reporting spoofs. Use the email address to report the spam.

I generally drag the message from Microsoft Entourage to the attachment list on my reporting email. I’ll leave it to you to figure out how to move the message in your particular setup.

For Ally Bank, the address is abuse@ally.com.

Also copy FTC spoof which is spam@uce.gov

May you never have to do this, but if you do, I hope you have time that you can help a lot.

- Mel

By: John

John — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:43:09 +0000

You mention:

“Like all banks, Ally will never request personal details in an email and any email will be addressed directly to you, not to, “Dear customer”.

Actually ALLY in Canada does send out an email addressed to ‘Valued Customer’, and they also have embedded hyperlinks in the email. This dangerous practise has been reported to them, but they seem in no hurry to correct these concerns.

I took the information directly from an Ally press release, but that was a while ago and although I find it hard to believe, I have no reason to doubt you John. Thanks for the information, but if you have proof of this, we would love to see it BM.

By: Georgah

Georgah — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:21:20 +0000

I seem to receive hundreds of these emails weekly. Fortunately, my company has a very good email blocker and they end up in my junkmail folder. I finally googled it an came across your site. I am in Canada, so it isn’t just the USA where this is coming from. I appreciate that you took the time to research this and have advised the rest of the public - should they care to check out their email before opening it. Thanks!

By: Nigel

Nigel — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:14:29 +0000

I received the same but with a diffrent subject line and decided to look it up on google and found your website

Good information, Thanks

Subject: Instructions for Ally Bank (former GMAC Bank) customer

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:35:21 +0000

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often. Susan

By: Edward Stream

Edward Stream — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:42:57 +0000

To prevent this kind of fraud it’s necessary to have software installed on your pc. I use bitdefender internet security 2009. it has a very good anti-phishing module. It’s very efficient.

I don’t personally think you need to invest in anti-phishing software - you need common sense and you need to delete any emails that come through that look a bit phishy without opening them. BM