MGD
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join:2002-07-31
Fort Lauderdale, FL
| Re: [Phishing] ALERT!! New Vicious PAYPAL phishing said by kw524  :... I knew better than to fall for that one. Maybe some Lawyers, Engineers, Academic Professionals, Web Consultants, Business owners and Headhunters go seek some common sense courses Good point, I see repeatedly that there is no correlation between extended education and common sense.
I am far more sympathetic to the elderly though, some get phished over and and over. I noticed a while back that some elderly victims that I notified to cancel their credit card, would say "oh no not again". When I inquired as to why, they said that their bank had contacted them twice in the past six months to notify them that there were multiple charges coming in from foreign countries, and their card was compromised.
These victims did not have any idea how it was happening. I asked them if they routinely responded to emails from Banks etc., then got copies of some of those emails. It was clear that these people were being re targeted over and over. Once they had first responded to a random phish, the phisher would come back and later and hit them with personalized phishes. Because they now new their full name and the issuing banks name, the next phishes would contain their name and the specific bank's name.
That is why I always tell people to never respond period, using the rule that legitimate mail will always include their name, no longer applies in these cases.
MGD |
