[GTALUG] Phishing is no mirage...

[Alvin Starr]

I got a message from someone phishing as UPS.
The interesting thing was that I was expecting a package on the same day 
from Amazon.
I do not get a lot of UPS tagged spam and this one was written to slide 
through as a plain text message with a word document attached.
The closeness to an Amazon delivery makes me wonder if someone has 
access to Amazon delivery information.


On 12/16/19 2:04 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> This morning, I received a realistic looking message appearing to be 
> from our hosting provider (linode) which was trying to convince me to 
> send out my credit card information.
> Titled... "Linode Support Ticket 13142320 - Other - Account Limit 
> reached. Please open a support ticket."
>
> This may even be more of a "spear phishing" thing as it it was broadly 
> personalized to me, as I help manage the GTALUG account at linode.
>
> Something was looking suspicious about the URL...
> http://login.linode.com.login.return.to.https.21354545.paulinasfriends.com
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