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

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:14:04 -0500 "Allen Belkin" <albelkin at comcast.net> wrote:

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> If I have any doubt that an email is phishing, I just hover my mouse over
> the link (being careful not to click!). It's usually obvious that the
> website does not belong to the company that claims to have sent it. Often
> it's from another country (the domain ends in something like .ru or .br,
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An important rule-of-thumb: NO banks, etc. ever send E-Mail asking you for
authentification of any sort. Basically this is true of *any* financial
instisution. Any E-Mail from a bank, from PayPal, from a Credit Card company,
etc. that is any more than a purely informative message (that you might have
expected), is a phishing E-Mail. 


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