Beware of Grouply! Phishing Scam

If you are a member of any Yahoo group and get an invitaton that seems to come from somebody you know to join Grouply.com -- DON'T. And notify the supposed sender. This is a phishing scam, aimed at getting hold of your e-mail account to send out spam.

Here's one case that just cropped up today:

From:
"Brantley Elkins" <xxxxxxx@yahoo.com>
Add sender to Contacts
To:
Aurora_Universe_Readers@yahoogroups.com
Cc:
yyyyyyy@yahoo.com
I was right. There's a phishing expedition on. Maybe if enough people here complain to Yahoo, they'll do something about it. I think I must have sent them a dozen complaints about the .info spammer program.

--Brantley


--- On Wed, 10/22/08, Lara Fan <yyyyyyy@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Lara Fan <yyyyyyy@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Identity Theft?
> To: "Brantley Elkins" <xxxxxxx@yahoo.com>
> Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 12:53 PM
> BTE --
>
> Thx for heads up.....yeah, something def looks
> amiss....tell the group twasn't me!!!!
>
> ElF
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 10/22/08, Brantley Elkins
> <xxxxxxx@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: Brantley Elkins <xxxxxxx@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Identity Theft?
> To: yyyyyyy@yahoo.com
> Cc: Aurora_Universe_Readers@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 11:45 AM
>
> My wife just got an e-mail, supposedly from you, promoting
> Grouply.com. I
> suspect that you've been phished, and that the same may
> be the case with
> others whose names have appeared on Grouply solicitations.
> You may have
> responded to a similar phishing expedition by someone using
> a name known to you.
> The advice I've read is to get out of Grouply and
> change your Yahoo
> password. >
> --Brantley
>
>
> --- On Wed, 10/22/08, Velvet <zzzzzzz@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Velvet <zzzzzzz@yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Aurora_Universe_Readers] Second Warning
> on Grouply
> > To: Aurora_Universe_Readers@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 12:18 PM
> >
> > Just got the following which I only opened because I
> > recognized the larafan screen name. Maybe one of the
> > moderators should email larafan22 to see if he
> actually sent
> > this. There was link below it to click if you
> didn't
> > want to receive anything from grouply, but I
> didn't
> > trust it.
> >