[Malvern] bird eats fish

[Stuart "Sslaxx" Moore]

Richard Forster wrote:
> Dudes
> 
> Just had my first ever phishing scam email. Thunderbird put up a big 
> warning banner, which was neat. I read about paypal's fake woes and 
> clicked the paypal link anyway. Got a nice dialogue box asking if I 
> really wanted to go to www.boutique-insight.com as Tbird thought it was 
> a scam. Also neat.
> 
> Undeterred, I went on to the page (in Firefox) which cleverly removes 
> the url bar from your browser window and places what looks like a java 
> applet at the top which mimics a https://www.paypal.com/ address bar. 
> The fonts were out but it obviously fools the sheep of the world.
> It then displayed a page which had the url bar removed but with no fake 
> copy. It also stopped anything from appearing in the status bar if you 
> hovered over a link.
> 
> I'd like to make two points to the parasites who run these scams which 
> I'll share here.
> Firstly, don't expect to fool me with a fake url bar if you put a blue 
> 'e' in it.
> 
> But the most important point
> 
> I don't have a paypal account.
> 
> I was thinking of swapping Tbird for something else. Looks like it 
> earned a reprieve tonight.

*grins*

Shows how the scamsters think about M$IE, methinks!

-- 
Stuart "Sslaxx" Moore
http://sslaxx.livejournal.com/