On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:08:02AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2005-01-11 at 19:23 -0500, Allen wrote:
If you're stupid enough to send your details out over an Email, then well, you're stupid enough to just hand the stuff you have over anyway. Me being a Social Engineer, I can tell you that just from reading your email and the
I hope you refer to the OP, not me ;-)
OP, not you.
No serious bussiness asks for your password on an email form.
They try though! ;) I've seen so many people get just nabbed by scams. I am very good at it but my hopes are to make stupidity lowered, not take mnoey. I've scammed money from people before, and gave it back.
¿Do they? I mean, does a serious bussiness send out an email to a client requesting him to enter the password "on an emailed form"? What a security risk! That would define them as "non serious bussiness" inmediately, in my book.
If some body sends such a notice, it is most probably faked.
I read a quick test for these yesterday: enter a false password. If it acepted, then it is obvious a scam. If it rejected, there is a chance it is genuine, albeit stupid.
And of course, looking at the html code of the link, or properties, it can be seen that the name displayed doesn't match what the link points to, but a cleverly engineered clone of the genuine web page of, say, ebay.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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