Comments on: Phishing Alert http://www.sciencetext.com/phishing-alert.html Sciencetext Tech Talk, PC tips, blog hacks, browsing, blogging, social media Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:01:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Bradley http://www.sciencetext.com/phishing-alert.html/comment-page-1#comment-103969 David Bradley Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:41:25 +0000 http://www.sciencetext.com/?p=1564#comment-103969 I think you're right Tracy, but as PT Barnum famously didn't <a href="http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html" rel="nofollow">say</a>, there's a sucker born every minute. I think you’re right Tracy, but as PT Barnum famously didn’t say, there’s a sucker born every minute.

]]> By: Tracy http://www.sciencetext.com/phishing-alert.html/comment-page-1#comment-103958 Tracy Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:48:01 +0000 http://www.sciencetext.com/?p=1564#comment-103958 Phishing is one of the oldest tricks in the book I cannot believe people still fall for it. Phishing is one of the oldest tricks in the book I cannot believe people still fall for it.

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencetext.com/phishing-alert.html/comment-page-1#comment-103955 David Bradley Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:24:21 +0000 http://www.sciencetext.com/?p=1564#comment-103955 Once, I clicked and started to log into an Adwords email, before I did a reality check. Turned out to be genuine so I would've been okay...but it just shows... Once, I clicked and started to log into an Adwords email, before I did a reality check. Turned out to be genuine so I would’ve been okay…but it just shows…

]]> By: Kim Woodbridge http://www.sciencetext.com/phishing-alert.html/comment-page-1#comment-103945 Kim Woodbridge Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:06:46 +0000 http://www.sciencetext.com/?p=1564#comment-103945 I have not received a Network Solutions one but last week I got a PayPal email that was really well done. It looked like PayPal and didn't have any obvious errors. Google didn't catch it either and dump into spam. Of course, I know to hover over the links before clicking on them and saw they were going to a completely different site. I then realized that the email came to an address that is not associated with my PayPal account so it could not have been real. I don't notice this right away because I have a number of accounts forwarding into one gmail account. I have not received a Network Solutions one but last week I got a PayPal email that was really well done. It looked like PayPal and didn’t have any obvious errors. Google didn’t catch it either and dump into spam. Of course, I know to hover over the links before clicking on them and saw they were going to a completely different site.

I then realized that the email came to an address that is not associated with my PayPal account so it could not have been real. I don’t notice this right away because I have a number of accounts forwarding into one gmail account.

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