R received this in his e-mail:
From: American Airlines [mailto:<redacted>]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 09:07
To: XXXXXXXXXX
Subject: Your Online Flight Ticket N 87865
Dear customers
Thank you for using our new service "Buy flight ticket Online" on our
website.
Your account has been created:
Your login: XXXXXXXXX
Your password: XXXXXXX
Your credit card has been charged for $610.01.
We would like to remind you that whenever you order tickets on our website
you get a discount of 10%!
Attached to this message is the purchase Invoice and the airplane ticket.
To use your ticket, simply print it on a color printed, and you are set to
take off for the journey!
Kind regards,
American Airlines
R has no flights planned nor ticketed with AA. Clearly phishing.
Mod note: Please read Post #3 in this thread to quickly find out everything about your email.
Also this is useful information from Post #40
As it says on the
Fraudulent Emails page on aa.com,
"If you receive this type of email, you should not click on any links, open any attachments, call phone numbers listed or follow any instructions in the email. Instead, forward a copy of the email, including the header to [email protected] so that we can investigate further."
1. Keep the original subject line in the forward, and include the full text body.
2. Include the complete e-mail header -- Email programs often display abbreviated headers, but the link below will show you how to see the full e-mail header, at least with most e-mail programs:
http://www.haltabuse.org/help/headers/index.shtml