[X4U] Re: Phishing

[Joe Sporleder]

I may very well know not what you were talking about then, but I don't  
think I'm alone. It would appear that even some directly involved in  
the debate aren't sure what they are talking about.

Joe

On Mar 13, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:

> 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 that my credit card information was out of date for .Mac.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.
>
> ________
>
> 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.
>>>