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Now that's chutzpah.

I just got another phishing e-mail. This one, again purportedly from Amazon, claimed - again, as usual - that my account had been suspended. The explanation, though, was that they suspected I had been hit by a phishing attack. There followed a detailed and accurate description of what phishing is, and then the usual "to reactivate your account, go :here:". (The words of :here: had to do with Amazon, but the hidden URL was given in digital form, which is always a red flag.)

I'm torn between admiration for the brazenness of it and thinking that anyone who would read a description of phishing and then click on that link really must not have both oars in the water.

Date: 2008-01-19 03:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] countrycousin.livejournal.com
anyone who would read a description of phishing and then click on that link really must not have both oars in the water.

Yes.

But a very small percentage might mean a payoff. Or maybe it is just phishing and this cast brought no catch.

Date: 2008-01-19 11:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yamazakikun.livejournal.com
If someone sent an email asking recipients to run the attached program to turn their computers into zombies and steal all their banking passwords, I have a strange feeling that half of them would.

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