Hitting back against a spammer...

[Colin McGregor]

Got a chuckle this morning when plowing through the
daily spam collection. Got an e-mail claiming to be
from Corpone, a US financial services organization,
that was asking me to login and verify my financial
details (with the website they were asking me to click
on being a domain registered to an organization with a
mailing address in Yarmouth, NS). All a fairly run of
the mill @#$% phishing scam right? Well, what amused
me was at the top of the e-mail was a large red block
with white letters that read:

     **** WARNING ****
        This is a
     fraudulent e-mail

Seems the e-mail included a link to grab the Corpone
logo off the Corpone website. Someone on the ball at
Corpone had changed the logo image on the scammers.
All right, so not a big hit against the con artists on
the net, but nice to see some folks disrupting them
where they can... Also, worth a chuckle to see that
happening...


Colin McGregor

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