Phishing scam - what to do now?

[lablover]

I can't believe I just did this. I just opened up an e-mail from "Toyota", with logos and all, that said as a current owner they thought I'd be interested in receiving future offers, etc. If I didn't want to be on the list I could just click on the link to send a blank e-mail and I would be removed from the list. I'm tired, so I quickly clicked on the link which opened up a new e-mail and I sent it. Right after I clicked it I thought to myself, wait a second, looked up at the address and sure enough, the e-mail address I sent it to is some random string of letters and numbers. I'm usually so careful about these things. So what can I expect now? Should I be worried or am I just going to be receiving a bunch of junk mail now? The e-mail I sent was blank.

[mariza]

I can't help much, but I would forward it to Toyota so they can have their Corporate IT Office look at it and hopefully stop it from happening to others. This happened to my Mom with a Bank of America Email recently, though in her case they were looking for her to give up passwords and account numbers. Fortunatley for her she didn't do as it asked but waited for me to look at it. I just forwarded it to BOA and they are working on it.
Good Luck!

[urquie]

forward the email to [email protected] ([email protected])

i forwarded a phishy email today and got this response...


US-CERT has received your report and has assigned incident number
PH0000000250121 for future reference.

For additional information on how to recognize and avoid phishing
scams, cut and paste the following link into your web browser:

http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/emailscams_0905.pdf (http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/emailscams_0905.pdf)

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is a
partnership between the Department of Homeland Security and the public
and private sectors. Established in 2003 to protect the nation's
Internet infrastructure, US-CERT coordinates defense against and
responses to cyber attacks across the nation.

US-CERT interacts with federal agencies, industry, the research
community, state and local governments, and others to disseminate
reasoned and actionable cyber security information to the public.

Your report will assist US-CERT in the identification of emerging
cyber-security threats.
Thank you,

US-CERT Operations Center
888-282-0870
[email protected]
http://www.us-cert.gov (http://www.us-cert.gov/)