[TriLUG] OT: phishing on PayPal

[Sean Murphy]

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Ian Kilgore wrote:
| 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).

I don't know how lucky you are but I've gotten about 10 in the last
year. I made the mistake of puting my email address on my website in a
bot-readable format. It has since been removed. I also have my email
listed in the archives of this and other mailing lists but overall I
think I'm doing very well.

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