Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.alt.net From: "James Wilkinson Sword" Newsgroups: alt.computer.security,alt.privacy.spyware,alt.privacy,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week. Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2017 18:34:07 -0000 Organization: ~ Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Xref: csiph.com alt.computer.security:5844 alt.privacy.spyware:15817 alt.privacy:22000 alt.comp.os.windows-10:32337 On Sun, 01 Jan 2017 02:55:10 -0000, Shadow wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 22:23:36 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword" > wrote: > >> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 20:50:09 -0000, Shadow 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!