LeapFish Phishing Attack
Posted by: LeapFish Media Team on: June 11, 2009
PHISHING ATTACK – LEAPFISH SCAM ALERT :
LeapFish advertisers have recently reported an individual who is sending a large number of anonymous emails to LeapFish advertisers identified on Twitter, Phishing for Personal Information, Attacking the LeapFish Brand, Spreading Propaganda and in some cases attempting to Cancel an Advertiser’s Account while gaining access to their Credit Card Information. LeapFish has identified the attacker as someone who has been attacking LeapFish clients and Employees on Twitter, Blogs and via email in order to gain access to personal and confidential corporate information. One example of the initial Phishing Attack email is provided below :
From: annonymous@annonymous.com
Date: April 13, 2009 9:02:29 AM PDT
To: ##########
Subject: Website request for: LeapFish
Name: A Good Citizen
Mail address: annonymous@annonymous.com
Message sent from ##########:
Saw your question about LeapFish on Twitter and I can help you with questions and your account with them.
This is a standard notification informing our customers that these anonymous Phishing emails did not originate from LeapFish Corporate. All legitimate communications from LeapFish will arrive from an official LeapFish.com email address. All sensitive client information remains secure and accessible by authorized parties only, unless you provide your information to the attacker.
LeapFish has initiated a formal investigation of the full criminal matter and will provide an official update shortly.
For more information on phishing scams visit : Phishing Attacks
Please assist us by forwarding any suspicious emails to support@leapfish.com or by contacting us directly at 888-748-5510.
1 | Vicki
I didn’t receive an email but did receive multiple calls from people “exposing” LeapFish. I got very concerned that they got my personal number but also what issue compelled them to scour the internet for my information. Something stinks.
Exposing LeapFish for what?! Being a great search engine?
This is ridiculous and I am afraid they were trying to scam me somehow when they starting asking about my LeapFish account details. I hung up on them and called the police.
2 | payday loans
blog.leapfish.com rocks! I found a lot of new information on blog.leapfish.com and I liked it a lot. Good job! I will be back.
3 | Janet C
I received a call too about 3 weeks ago. I didn’t think too much of it until I saw this post. Very concerning.
It’s these types of people that obviously have nothing better to do than to try to get ahead in life at others expense and hard work.
Whoever this person is they need to find a productive way to make an impact rather than to try and get people to give them their information. Also I’ve seen enough negative stuff from a few select individuals online that indicates who they are.
I hope this investigation with ferret out these couple of bad apples and stop them from preying on inncocent people.
5 | mark siever
I started using Leapfish after a friend told me about it and with the frustrations I have had using Google. You will never know how poorly designed Google is until you try Leapfish. For one thing, everytime you click on a siet a new window opens which you can minimize and go right back to leapfish and click on another. Unlike Google where, once clicking on a site and going further in to that site, when you wnat to return to Google you have to click back, back, back…until you finally get there. Not only that, so9me sites won’t even let you return! Check it out for yourself. What an awesome search engine. Thanks Leapfish!
6 | mark siever
Did I mention as well that at the top of every Leapfish page you can select from Google, Yahoo and MSN without having to go to there sites individually. Why would anyone want to use anything but Leapfish from now on? Really! It rocks!!!
7 | diana
I bounce from Yahoo to Google to MSN when I search for info on the internet. Talk about a pain going from one to the other. On Leapfish I have all of the top 3 search engines right there and I can go from one to the other without having to change my keywords. Also, check out the images and videos (youtube) section. Blows the other search engines away. Also, I understand that these top three search engines have all given Leapfish there autorization to use them. Why would they do this if they didn’t believe Leapfish to be a good site? You be the jusge. Check it out. You won’t use just one ever again. You’ll be hooked on Leapfish.
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