Enjoyable Phishing
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captain_slinkyThere are two different types of Banking Phishing Spams that i really, REALLY enjoy.
The first are the ones that are really very well done. Aliasing, misleading, properly researched and expertly constructed. One had even gone so far as to include the "NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION" notification and linked to an expertly constructed clone of the actual banking website complete with plausible urls and everything. Very clever, except that i don't have an account with that bank. Nobody will fall for it, but ya gotta admire the amount of work they put in to it.
The other ones are the REALLY BAD ones. Improper html mark-up in the e-mail trying to display an image from a personal server, sender is "YOUR BANK (porndude69@yahoo.de)", and they actually said in the message "DO NOT try to log in to your account at our website for security reasons. We can handle the whole situation via e-mail if you just reply with your username, password, social security number and account number." I love these ones because I like to try and imagine the guy who created it and sent it out. he sat there at his e-Machines computer thinking "Dude, it's FOOLPROOF! I'm gonna get RICH!"
The first are the ones that are really very well done. Aliasing, misleading, properly researched and expertly constructed. One had even gone so far as to include the "NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION" notification and linked to an expertly constructed clone of the actual banking website complete with plausible urls and everything. Very clever, except that i don't have an account with that bank. Nobody will fall for it, but ya gotta admire the amount of work they put in to it.
The other ones are the REALLY BAD ones. Improper html mark-up in the e-mail trying to display an image from a personal server, sender is "YOUR BANK (porndude69@yahoo.de)", and they actually said in the message "DO NOT try to log in to your account at our website for security reasons. We can handle the whole situation via e-mail if you just reply with your username, password, social security number and account number." I love these ones because I like to try and imagine the guy who created it and sent it out. he sat there at his e-Machines computer thinking "Dude, it's FOOLPROOF! I'm gonna get RICH!"
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Date: 2008-02-26 01:49 pm (UTC)My new favorite thing (she says with intense mindmelting sarcasm) is when I do have an account at a bank, I get emails from them looking for their money, but their website sucks so bad that it won't let me log in and forces me to reset my password 8 million times and still doesn't let me in only to return me back to the same screen over and over and over and over.... Yes, YOU BANK OF AMERICA!