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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Tim Danton

Oh, those ingenious swindlers

I thought I’d seen all of the clever methods used by those lovely people who send phishing emails in the hope we’ll click where we really shouldn’t, but today saw a new trick. It still had the tell-tale signs – “Dear customer” not “Dear Tim”, a suggestion that something had gone terribly wrong with my account – but this time the From address looked scarily accurate. Until I looked a little closer, that is.

Paypal... or is it?

Ten out of ten for creativity, though.

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4 Responses to “ Oh, those ingenious swindlers ”

  1. Derek Clarke Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 9:01 am

    Why did they bother when you can fake From addresses anyway?

     
  2. Tim Danton Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 9:29 am

    I believe spoofing From addresses is now highlighted by most email clients, and probably won’t make it past a good spam filter…

     
  3. David Wright Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 10:33 am

    So, the rip-off artists are trying to get customers of another rip-off artist to visit their site? Sounds fair to me :-D

     
  4. Paul Ockenden Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 8:17 am

    I hope you told them to P155 0FF

    P.

     

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