Subj : Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week.
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Date : Sun Jan 01 2017 12:34 pm
From: "James Wilkinson Sword" <
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Subject: Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week.
On Sun, 01 Jan 2017 02:55:10 -0000, Shadow <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 22:23:36 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
> <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 20:50:09 -0000, Shadow <
[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Telling me to change my password, and use two factor security, "for my
>>> safety". Apparently I can send a hash of my fingerprints, my cell
>>> phone number or my social security details.
>>>
>>> The headers appear to be authentic, but the Yahoo emails redirect to a
>>> site in Bosnia, and the Microsoft emails to a rent-an-IP company in
>>> Brazil.
>>>
>>> No serious company would ever demand you use two factor
>>> authentication. It's two vulnerabilities to exploit. Just use a STRONG
>>> password.
>>
>> I don't care about anyone stupid enough to fall for those.
>
> Some of them are almost perfect, from the faked header to the
> long link with a redirect so far to the right it does not appear on
> the screen when you hover over it. You only see the "yahoo"or
> "live.com" followed by the usual (expected) string of datamining.
> []'s
I've never seen one that even made me look twice. Spelling and grammatical err
ors everywhere, bad alignment, wrong server used on all the links, blatantly ob
vious.
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