[Hidden-tech] Why phishing won't go away

Ed Bride Ed at edbride-pr.com
Sat Jan 24 14:32:32 EST 2015


The way I interpreted the Intuit instruction is that you should go to a site
manually, not by clicking, because the hyperlink might not take you to the
actual company's URL. I don't see a conflict.

Ed

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A few days ago, I received a phishing email trying to obtain my Intuit
password. I would normally just have deleted it, but this one was so well
crafted and clever that I forwarded it to the address Intuit provides to
report these kinds of things ( spoof at intuit.com ).

Yesterday, I received an reply from Intuit that began as follows:

===============================================

Thank you for your recent message to the TurboTax Privacy Team.

We also thank you for reporting this e-mail to us as it is not legitimate.
We are investigating now and will take action on it. We have the following
support site article to help you understand phishing and what you can do to
avoid it.

http://turbotax.com/support/go/-------    [case reference # removed]

When you suspect you are being phished :

1.    Do not click on a link in a suspicious email, but rather go to the 
company site and view the information. Even if a suspicious email is not
requesting personal information, it may contain viruses that can retrieve
personal information off of a computer.

===============================================

Compare the instruction in the initial paragraphs with the advice
immediately following as to how to avoid becoming a phishing victim.

The "Privacy Team" at Intuit seem totally oblivious to this disconnect.

You really have to wonder which side these people are on.





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