Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Phishing

I've received this latest .. it is slick.
Prodigious New Paypal Phishing Scheme
More than 1,100 victim accounts in 72 hours

One of our users has been exploring a massive new Paypal phishing operation making the rounds, and dissects it in our Scambuster's forum. According to his analysis, the scam snared more than 1,100 victim accounts within 72 hours. "In the two years that I have been digesting and extracting phish data, I have never seen any that came close to 1,100 victims in a little over two days," observes user MGD. "In fact, I have never seen anything even close to that rate regardless of the up-time or the phish type."
''Why anyone would follow a link sent to them through EMAIL "to update their account" after so many repeated phishing attacks over the years truly surprises me.

''I feel sorry for the victims and I'm sure that this will be a tough lesson learned.''

5 comments:

Dr.Hardcrab said...

Sh8t!

I get one a week from either them or eBay. I used to forward them to spoof@paypal.com or spoof@ebay.com, but it got way too tedious. I just delete them and go on.

I agree: NEVER! click a link in an email...

Anonymous said...

Ms. Coulter on Cavuto

Anonymous said...

People actually open that stuff?

Anonymous said...

Ann Coulter--

Beautiful, articulate and conservative.

GawdIlovethatwoman.

Anonymous said...

I have no sympathy. Ignorance is never an excuse; it's just the cognitive human version of evolution in action. Getting "sucked in" to this site is just laziness, the refusal to follow the simple rule (if you MUST go & check PayPal or etc.) of not following the link, of just typing in the URL of the site directly. This doesn't require a masters' degree or some kind of esoteric knowledge.

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