No Fears with Sportsbook.com E-mail

There have been some questions floating around the internet this week as to the validity of an e-mail from Sportsbook.com.  The e-mail was sent to most people on July 17 and requests that the recipient update his date of birth on his Sportsbook.com account.

Normally, that would be a fairly ordinary request.  But many people who received it don’t even bet or play poker at Sportsbook.com and the e-mail contains one of the biggest red flags in the “how to detect internet fraud” handbook – it asks the recipient to click on a link to make the information change.

Typically, “phishing” attempts try to get the unsuspecting victim to click a link in the body of an e-mail that looks like it takes them to an account page for a company with which they do business.  In reality, it is a fraudulent site, dressed up like the real thing.  Whatever account information the victim submits on that fake site goes straight to criminals, who then use it to rob the target.