AA Rewards Email - Phishing verified, Warning !!!

[winger]

Some of you may receive this....THIS IS A PHISHING SCAM EMAIL -------
Verified it is via this website:
http://www.phishtank.com/phish_detail.php?phish_id=931630



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News information about membership reward 2010‏
From: American Airlines (service@aainformation.com)
Sent: Tue 2/23/10 1:49 PM
To:

Greetings from American Airlines AAdvantage(R) Program

Welcome to the American Airlines AAdvantage(R) program, the first and largest loyalty program in the world! We are proud to inform you that today,
American Airlines launch a new reward program. Please take the 5 questions survey. For your effort you will be rewarded with $50 & 25,000 miles.

Your $50 & 25,000 miles bonus code is AA-1028917109
Please log in to https://www.aa.com/login/loginAccess.do ,and follow the reward steps.

Thank you very much for your help and your patient and hope you will enjoy the American Airlines reward program in the future

Sincerely,
American Airlines Reward Department
Please do not reply to this auto-answer message

Discover the rewards that come with AAdvantage membership and start earning miles toward AAdvantage elite status today. Members can also earn miles at more than
1,500 participating companies including:

* over 20 participating airlines
* leading hotel chains
* car rental agencies
* credit/debit cards
* dining
* financial services
* retail and gifts
* telecommunications companies
* vacations and cruises


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The link above takes you to:

http://www.aa.reward2010.com/index.php

 

[pjrose]

Wow, that's a pretty good one - though a careful reader might notice the grammatical errors and get suspicious.

 

[Cathyb]

Thank you -- I overlooked the spelling of patience (patient).

 

[dlpearson]

I got this email yesterday (didn't read it until today) and was tempted to click on the link, until I reread and noticed the grammatical typos.......and figured it was a fake.

David

 

[Ken555]

The first thing I check on these types of emails (assuming they get past my excellent anti-spam service) is the sender's email address. If it's not *exactly* the same as the company it's purportedly representing, then I delete it.

Another trick is to change the email format from HTML to text. When you do that, you'll see that the image representing, in this case, "www.aa.com" is the "www.aa.reward2010.com" that Winger correctly points out. Be very very careful what you click!

On rare occasion I will receive a marketing survey or other legitimate email from a from address/domain other than the company, but the contents of those emails are easy to acknowledge as legit.

 

[PigsDad]

Another trick is to change the email format from HTML to text. When you do that, you'll see that the image representing, in this case, "www.aa.com" is the "www.aa.reward2010.com" that Winger correctly points out. Be very very careful what you click!

Or in Outlook, you can just hover your mouse over the link and it will display the actualy URL of the link.

Kurt

 

[ScoopKona]

Another trick is to change the email format from HTML to text. When you do that, you'll see that the image representing, in this case, "www.aa.com" is the "www.aa.reward2010.com" that Winger correctly points out. Be very very careful what you click!

And how many people are internet-savvy enough to know that "www.aa.reward2010.com" isn't operated by the fine folks at www.aa.com?

I just assume everything is a scam until proven otherwise. (I thought restaurant.com was too good to be true, and didn't try it until Fern mentioned how great it is.) Still, I'd rather err on the side of caution.