[GTALUG] [Fwd: Your account has been forzen]

David Collier-Brown davec-b at rogers.com
Sun Nov 29 15:40:22 UTC 2015


I once had a phisher trying to get me to come to an industrial district 
at night to pick up my prize: I asked him to call me at my home number, 
not my work one, and gave him the number of the fraud squad.
He called it!

Phishing works, but what one catches can be A Bad Thing.

--dave


On 28/11/15 08:13 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> [It is probably best not to CC people on posts to the list: too much
> disclosure of their email addresses.]
>
> | Ah, the unintentional hilarity of mis-spelt phishing emails.
>
> Yeah.
>
> I got a phone call yesterday from "my oldest nephew".  They hung up
> when I awkwardly asked "who?".
>
> Today I got one from "my grandson".  They asked if I could hear them
> and I said "maybe".  Then they hung up.
>
> Phishing apparently works.
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David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
davecb at spamcop.net           |                      -- Mark Twain



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