Phishing
April 5, 2008
My mom’s been drilling this into my head since I was a little kid. “Do not give out your social security number, credit information or anything over the phone.” In my head, it just transferred over to e-mail.
That said, some of these phishing e-mails are damned hooky. I’m not talking about the Nigerian/Iraqi/Chinese business-man who has six million dollars in unmarked bills and only needs your bank account number to launder this money over to the U.S. so that his family can get to it. I have gotten a few convincing Paypal e-mails that looked pretty damned close to the real thing.
What is the most realistic phishing e-mail you’ve gotten?
April 8, 2008 at 7:35 pm
As I stated in my post I have never received a phishing email but I husband did receive several of the PayPal emails, but we were warned ahead of time that they were not real. So we were lucky, but not everyone is.
April 13, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Probably the most realistic phishing email I received was from a bank which I have a credit card from. It may actually have worked if I hadn’t received at the same time a similar email from a bank that I didn’t have a credit card with. I can certainly understand why people have fallen for these scams and definitely believe that educating students is important at all ages.