Cynthetiq

I got this phishing email today...

I saw the URL but didn't check the status at the bottom as my mouse rolled over to see it was a .ru. Of course when the page opened I still didn't look at the URL, I was just about to put in my name and password (which I never remember on Paypal for some reason) when I looked up and saw the wrong URL.

Just remember to be careful...

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Ace_O_Spades

haha tricky tricky, luckily you spotted it in time

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fresnelly

That's pretty impressive. I like to think I have a 6th sense about this sort of thing, but I don't know if I would have caught it. Ironic how it exploits your fear of a security breach on one of your private accounts.

Thanks for sharing!

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Slyboots

I thought Aol was suppose to stop phishing and stuff?

I guess this one got passed them.

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MontanaXVI

whenever someone comes phishing in my little pond of an inbox, I more than happily grab the hook and run right over to here http://www.phishfighting.com/

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barenakedladies

Ive gotten that one before as well... it gets trickier and trickier everyday.

Sometimes i think the internet is a bad thing because more and more everyday its loaded up with jackasses who are jsut out to screw you.

The internet has become the new underground mob... and mostly for 14 year olds stealing credit card numbers.

Its a sad state of affairs.

The terrorists have won... to expand a cliche of today because everyday it seems we are just trying to protect ourselves more and more and are scared of whats out there.
And not so much scared i suppose as it is... watching yourself EVERYWHERE you go. Its like some people wake up in the morning and say to themselves... who can i screw today.
The internet is a major outlet for people to do this.... and uneducated people who dont know that much about the internet blindly hand over their information without even knowing it.
These phishers prey on those kind of people.
Its sad.

Marvelous Marv

I never click on a link in e-mail to any of my financial sites.

But thanks a ton for the phishfighting site!

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cyrnel

Paypal & ebay have to be the most abused. My martian radar still goes up whenever something arrives from either.

Late 90's I wrote a sendmail filter so our customers could have the (a) tags filtered from their email, leaving images but only the actual trimmed URLs as clickable. Formatting looked a little screwy but it caught plenty of anglers.

The same thing is easy enough to do for your webmail sites with Proxomitron or Privoxy.

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sailor

Good call--I like that solution. 99% of the time, the phishing can be caught just by looking at the URL.

And that site rocks... Very good idea... I'd be interested to know the technical side of how it works...

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superiorrain

I'm impressed by it all, both you spotting it and by the people that created it. I doubt i would or could have done either. At the same time i will put myself on even higher alert, the crap ones i always spot but that was more professional than any of the ones i have ever gotten.

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