I got what is definitely the most realistic looking phishing e-mail I've ever seen tonight. It purported to be from Walmart and claimed that because of unauthorized access, my account had been locked.
I guess the days of obvious spelling and grammatical errors are behind us.
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TheCalvinator24
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Re: Phishing e-mail
Yeah, the ones I get for my Wells Fargo Bank account look very real too --- one problem, I don't bank with them.TheCalvinator24 wrote:I got what is definitely the most realistic looking phishing e-mail I've ever seen tonight. It purported to be from Walmart and claimed that because of unauthorized access, my account had been locked.
I guess the days of obvious spelling and grammatical errors are behind us.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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SteelersFan has always declined to provide an E-mail to any company we do business with, and I started doing the same this year after blocking E-mails from addresses similar to what Cal and Bob describe.
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-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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The problem I have is with local school organizations. You have to have an email so they can include you in the communications, but the nimrods send out everyones' email addresses in the 'To' field and not the 'bcc' field so my address gets picked up by everyones' computer on the list that doesn't have proper virus protection.SportsFan68 wrote:SteelersFan has always declined to provide an E-mail to any company we do business with, and I started doing the same this year after blocking E-mails from addresses similar to what Cal and Bob describe.
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~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
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If I try to block e-mails, I'll never get my Nigerian inheritance.
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Wow, that's extreme. I want emails instead of dead-tree mail. All of my email goes through SpamCop.net which does a great job of filtering phishing, malware, and just plain spam out.SportsFan68 wrote:SteelersFan has always declined to provide an E-mail to any company we do business with, and I started doing the same this year after blocking E-mails from addresses similar to what Cal and Bob describe.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.