Fancy Baby Bow Website Was a Hiding Place for a Phising Scam

The other day I got a Phishing scam e-mail. I noticed the link pointed to virginia.edu. When I went to the website, I found a directory full of various html files pointing to another directory buried in a website selling fancy bows and hats for babies.

I wrote the webmaster at virginia.edu and at annebows.com. Virginia.edu webmaseter and annebows.com’s owner wrote back saying they were not behind the scam and they were cleaning the scam pages off their website. I assume annebows.com is not involved with the scam; otherwise they would not have written back apologizing for their site being hacked.

I have never been into babies until my first baby was born in 2008. I have another baby coming in 2010, so I’m sort of glad the scammer led to me a page with cute babies.

If we were into buying cute hats for infants, and neither my wife or I are into baby clothes, I would buy something quality from a small business I felt I could connect to instead of going to a huge chain. There’s nothing wrong with chains. I’m just saying, all things being equal, I would rather deal with a place where the owner writes back personally.