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LeapFish Phishing Attack

Posted by: LeapFish Media Team on: June 11, 2009

PHISHING 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.
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.
Please assist us by forwarding any suspicious emails to support@leapfish.com or by contacting us directly at 888-748-5510.

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.

5 Responses to "LeapFish Phishing Attack"

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.

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.

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.

Great Post.

Thank you for the info.

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!!!

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