[doc] Re: WATCH OUT - phishing about

["colmnugent" <colm.nugent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds good, unfortunately my programming skills amount to:

10 Print "Deloreans Rule"
20 Goto 10

Regards

Colm (still mourning the death of Locoscript)

--- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mike Green" <mgreen@xxxx> wrote:
> Actually colm, another great thing to do (well for me, as a bored
> programmer one day) was to write a little program that would visit 
the
> phishing site over and over again, filling it with bogus usernames 
and
> passwords, leave it running on a server for a few days, and their
> databases get totally filled with crap.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: colmnugent [mailto:colm.nugent@xxxx] 
> Sent: 05 January 2005 16:21
> To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [doc] Re: WATCH OUT - phishing about
> 
> 
> 
> 
> You get loads of these, including very genuine looking ones from 
> PayPal.  E-bay ask that you forward every 'phishing' e-mail to 
> spoof@xxxx  I do so religiously but I'm not aware what good it 
> does...
> 
> Basically if you get any e-mail from ebay or paypal or your bank 
> asking you to confirm or re-enter your personal account details it 
> is 100% a genuine phishing e-mail.  Similarly ones telling you 
your 
> account is suspended.
> 
> Regards and best wishes
> 
> Colm
> 
> --- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "tracey ann steele" 
<traceystl@xxxx> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > jUST WANTING YOU TO KNOW I HAD A SPOOF E-MAIL TODAY FROM E BAY
> > WANTING MY CREDIT CARD DETAILS SO BE CAREFULL,E-BAY NEVER ASKS 
FOR 
> > THESE AGAIN ONCE YOU HAVE JOINED.
> > CHEERS TRACEY VIN 6484 MARTI
> 
> 
> 
> 
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