[X4U] Re: Phishing

[Michael Elliott]

Except thats not what we are talking about. If the account has already  
been hacked, then there wouldn't any more emails.

The issue that is still being explained to someone is that phishers  
will send out mass emails disguised as Paypal or other companies  
trying to trick people, knowing that only a (small?) percentage of  
recipients will actually have a Paypal account.

This is similar to an email that I received last fall telling me that  
my credit card information was out of date for .Mac. The timing of the  
email was when the anniversary of .Mac's service startup was. So I was  
ready to accept this email "from" Apple. Luckily, I checked the link  
destination and saw that it didn't resolve to Apple's domain.

And I, too, get daily emails from phishers purporting to be from  
banks, paypal, eBay, credit card companies, etc. And, no, those  
businesses haven't been "hacked"--they are just random attempts to  
fool you.

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Sent from my iPhone...so replies might be short, and sometimes  
"autocorrected" into gibberish.

On Mar 13, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Joe Sporleder <joe at wacondatrader.com>  
wrote:

>
> On Mar 13, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Ed Gould wrote:
>
>> On Mar 13, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Ralph wrote:
>>
>>> You're not listening, and you don't understand phishing.
>>>
>>> The email addresses DON'T come from the bank that's being  
>>> attacked. They come from lists that are circulated in the criminal  
>>> community. The phisher doesn't know that you have a PayPal  
>>> account; he's just betting that a certain percentage of the people  
>>> on the list he's using do have accounts.
>>>
>>> Think about it for a minute before you go off half-cocked again: I  
>>> told you that I got phishing emails purporting to be from Wells  
>>> Fargo and Bank of America, YET I DON'T HAVE AN ACCOUNT AT EITHER  
>>> OF THOSE BANKS. THEREFORE THEY WEREN'T HACKED TO GET MY EMAIL.
>>>
>>> You're needlessly spreading false information and FUD about PayPal.
>>>
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>> Full disclosure: I do not have any connection with PayPal or eBay.
>>>
>>
>> I am sorry I *DO* understand *PHISHING*, it is you that does not  
>> understand.
>> It is *FUNNY* that as soon as my account was deleted that the  
>> PHISHING stopped, isn't it? Or are you going to now say the stars  
>> have something to do with it?
>> I suspect you have some connection with PAYPAL and are trying to  
>> minimize the issue.
>> However if *YOU* want to keep this up I will not respond in the  
>> future.
>> End of the so called conversation.
>> Ed
>
>
> Phishing is a cyber crime where someone tries to gain personal  
> information, particularly passwords, user names, credit card  
> information, SS#, etc, by PRETENDING to be a trusted source that  
> they are not. If there was a phishing attack associated with a  
> genuine PayPal account, perhaps that account's username and password  
> was stolen somehow.
>
> Joe
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