[TriLUG] OT: phishing on PayPal

Ian Kilgore ian at trilug.org
Mon Jan 10 15:45:12 EST 2005


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Charles Fischer wrote:
| I have gotten phishing e-mails from crooks pretending to be from
| CitiBank, Smith Barney, PayPal, and Capital One.  I only have accounts
| at two of the four.  I think the phishing e-mails just go to a spam
| list, hoping for a hit.
|
| PS, I hope you did not use Internet Explorer or Microsoft Windows when
| you went to the phishing site.
|

Hmm, am I just extremely lucky?  I hear everybody ranting about getting
spam and phishing emails and whatnot... I've recieved one spam in 2005,
and none other in recent memory... (besides on a free email account,
where they give out your address).
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