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

[Jan Werner]

Robert Heller wrote:
> 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,
>> etc.).
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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.

It's not much more difficult to duplicate the look and feel design of a 
web site than it is to duplicate the look of a bank's email messages.

The smarter phishing attempts today don't ask for information directly 
but try to steer you to a web site that looks legitimate, where they can 
intercept your information before passing you on to the real site.

That's why you should always go to your bank's site from your browser's 
address bar or bookmarks, rather than by clicking on a link in an email. 
  Banks may not ask you for information, but as long as they continue to 
include links to their sites in emails they are encouraging this kind of 
phishing activity.

The original phishing email that I received was extremely clever, with 
real Intuit logos and wording.  It also had a number of links that 
actually led to Intuit, but with a couple of links to some rather 
innocuous sounding false URLs scattered among them.  As I said in my 
original post, I usually just delete this kind of thing, but this one 
was so well designed that I felt I should let Intuit know about it.

Jan Werner

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