Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week.

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From	"James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com>
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Subject	Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week.
Date	Sun, 01 Jan 2017 18:34:07 -0000
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On Sun, 01 Jan 2017 02:55:10 -0000, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 22:23:36 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
> <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 20:50:09 -0000, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> 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 errors everywhere, bad alignment, wrong server used on all the links, blatantly obvious.

-- 
There is no such thing as a law abiding motorist, just those who have been scammed and those yet to be scammed!

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Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2016-12-30 18:50 -0200
  Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2016-12-31 22:06 +0000
    Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> - 2017-01-01 00:35 +0000
    Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2017-01-01 00:48 -0200
      Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-01-10 23:44 +0000
    Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. Diesel <me@privacy.net> - 2017-01-15 02:19 +0000
      Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-01-15 06:04 +0000
        Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2017-01-15 13:16 -0200
          Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-01-15 16:07 +0000
          Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-01-15 16:38 +0000
          Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. rikijo <kaboom2@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-15 17:04 +0000
            Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2017-01-16 07:45 -0200
  Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2016-12-31 22:23 +0000
    Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2017-01-01 00:55 -0200
      Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-01-01 18:34 +0000
        Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2017-01-01 20:10 -0500
          Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. Big Bad Bob <BigBadBob-at-mrp3-dot-com@testing.local> - 2017-01-10 12:08 -0800
            Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2017-01-10 16:02 -0500
  Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. Big Bad Bob <BigBadBob-at-mrp3-dot-com@testing.local> - 2017-01-10 12:03 -0800

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