"She Has a Three"

[stoutfellow]

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.

Comments

[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.

[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.