Comments on: Catch-22

By: Jilles

Jilles — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:55:07 +0000

Ah I see… The comments link is at the top of the article, not at the bottom where it usually is. Now I wonder if this happens more often? :-)

By: Jilles

Jilles — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:52:51 +0000

Weird, that ended up on a completely different blogpost ;-) Please ignore!

By: Jilles

Jilles — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:52:00 +0000

Shouldn’t be too hard right? For example, TomTom (car navigation) comes now with models that will broadcast back information (which lets TomTom detect where traffic jams are located).

Similarly, if you never saw anyone driving across that closed of part of the street you could draw the conclusion that it’s become either a) unusable or b) non-existent, right?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:19:21 +0000

yep, i also received this. however, i did have a small amount of texaco stock through Mellon something. i think it’s legit. when companies lose info, though, it’s legal issues time. Mellon is probably trying to avert a class action, which seem to pop up daily.

ConsumerInfo.com seems ok via a lookup of the owner of the site:
Current Registrar: EXPERIAN SERVICES, CORP.
IP Address: 66.161.61.100 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)
Record Type: Domain Name
Server Type: IIS 5
Lock Status: clientTransferProhibited
Web Site Status: Active

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:11:44 +0000

I call phish. Experian is at experian.com, and the real Triple Alert is linked from http://www.experian.com/consumer/login.html

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:37:32 +0000

I got this in the mail too, but they spelled my name wrong. Smells like phish to me.

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:03:22 +0000

> “quetions and concerns”

Heh. No, that was me :-)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:17:31 +0000

Is the message quote a copy and paste? If, so, I would definitely have “quetions and concerns” (sic).

By: Giacomo

Giacomo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:26:17 +0000

“Dear Sir or Madam” is the problem. Your bank should always call you by name…

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:52:55 +0000

> make a security decision as to whether
> this is a scam or not…

My guess is that it isn’t a scam. But I foresee an infinite regress. Next thing you know, Experian’s archive services vendor loses a tape, and…strange loop.

By: Julien

Julien — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:37:15 +0000

I’ve received that too and struggled to figure out if it is legit.
For one, if you’re like me, you don’t have direct dealings with BNY.
Also, there is no FTC page on this incident and site.
I even called the hotline, but again that does not help you make a security decision as to whether this is a scam or not…