[X4U] Re: Phishing

[T.L. Miller]

It's very common -- I get several a week. The links in the e-mails take
me (when I bother) to websites that outwardly appear to be authentic
sites of major banks, credit cards, eBay, PayPal, etc., etc.  Of course
I don't play their game and 1Password would not recognize as an official site.

I'm sure 1000s of people get sucked in every day and supply their user
names and passwords that the crooks use to access the accounts.

Tom Miller

On 3/13/09, at 9:35 PM, Michael Elliott michaelelliott at me.com said:

>Of that, I have no doubt :)
>
>________
>
>Sent from my iPhone...so replies might be short, and sometimes
>"autocorrected" into gibberish.
>
>On Mar 13, 2009, at 7:51 PM, Joe Sporleder <joe at wacondatrader.com>
>wrote:
>
>> 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 that my credit card information was out of date for .Mac.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.
>>>>>
>>
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