Spam, Identity theft?

[danaeris]

I just received the following email:


From: hostmaster@concentric.net
Subject: Your credit card has been successfully charged for $69.95
Date: March 6, 2004 8:17:22 PM PST
To: questioner

Administration of www.shadowcrew.com online store would like to thank you for your purchase of Viagra tablets. Couple of words about our products and services. Viagra is a prescription drug used to treat erection difficulties, such as erectile dysfunction, which also refers to as an impotence. At this condition men do not experience normal erection, necessary for the sexual act. VIAGRA works only in reply to sexual excitation and does not influence reproductive function in any way. Your tablets will be sent to the address specified by you within 24 hours. You should store VIAGRA at temperature below 30 degrees in original packing and out of reach of children. Do not take preparation after expiry date which is located on top of the package. We are the only official dealers that offer you tablets in original packaging. We guarantee to refund your money during 30 days.

If you never purchased this product please contact us at: 1.888.575.6398
To cancel this purchase please contact us at: 1.408-817-2800
To change the shipping address on the order: 1.877.999.8779
If you suffer any side effects please contact: 1.866.963.9696
For bulk purchases please contact: 1.703.547.2000

Thank you for choosing www.shadowcrew.com
We are the first - the best.

What do you think, is this just spam, or should I be worried that one of my credit card numbers has been stolen?

Comments

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

Don't contact these slime, contact your credit card companies. This looks like trolling to me.

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

Probably!

BTW, I finally added you as a friend. The delay was not because I don't like you or anything like that... I worked constantly upon returning to SF, and then my primary partner unexpectedly dumped me. So I've been busy in a number of ways. But I haven't forgotten you. ;)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I got that same email, as did someone else I've seen, and I haven't got a credit card, let alone one attached to the address where I got it. It's spam.

[unseelie23.livejournal.com]

Most likely spam, but it's easy enough to contact your credit card company and confirm if there's been a charge.

What I would not do is call any of the numbers listed, as they could redirect to an exchange that would result in you being charged for a fraudulent long distance/international call.

we scare you, you give us a phone number

[http://users.livejournal.com/_duncan/]

If you never ordered, phone this number
... which happens to be a toll free number, so now these clowns would have your phone number whether or not you block CLID. Spamming for valid phone numbers. Evil, evil.

With the confirmations I'd do nothing. Without them I'd have checked the credit account.

Either way there's really no rush. You have something like a month after actually receiving a statement with a fraudulant charge on it to raise a stink.

[geekosaur]

It's spam; not only have I received that same message, but so has CMU ECE's trouble ticket system. And there seems to have been some discussion of it on MIT zephyr, although I don't have access to the logs to double-check.

[echan.livejournal.com]

I second the label of spam. I got it too, as well as a few friends of mine.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

I got the same one today.

[rightsock.livejournal.com]

As others have pointed out, start with an autoritative source such as your credit card company. Don't trust and click on any url's in the email, type the url in yourself.

If there's no charge, then you should report this email to your credit card company as fraud.

Even if there was a false charge, you should start with your credit card company anyways.