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Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple

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In article <53657752$0$47947$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 14-05-03 13:59, David Fritzinger wrote:
> >
> > Just a warning to all. I just received what appears to be a phishing 
> > email t)hat appeared to be (but wasn't) from Apple.
> 
> Nobody should be using a email client that displays HTML as HTML, and
> doesn't have a "view source" option.
> 
> "view source" is the best way to see if an email is legit or not. (the
> "Received from" headers provide very good information. An Apple email
> doesn't come from aol for instance),

Hovering the mouse over the link in many applications will also display
the real address from the source code. That's usually enough to tell
you it's a fake. Even if it doesn't say something completely obvious
like "astrohackers.com", it will usually try hopelessley to hide the
fact with something silly like apple.xyz.ru.

The problem can be legitimate links in email newsletters generated by
places like MailChimp. These often use coded links which then
auto-redirect - the coded link is used by the sender's MailChimp
account for statiscal purposes to see how many people clicked the link.

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Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple David Fritzinger <dfritzin@nospam.mac.com> - 2014-05-03 13:59 -0400
  Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple billy@MIX.COM - 2014-05-03 19:23 +0000
    Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-05-03 16:10 -0400
  Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-05-03 16:06 -0400
  Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-05-03 15:16 -0500
  Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-03 17:26 -0500
  Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-05-03 19:10 -0400
    Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-05-04 12:51 +1200
      Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-04 08:58 -0500
    Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-10 12:39 +0200
      Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-05-10 08:43 -0500
        Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-05-10 11:33 -0400
      Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-05-11 19:45 +0100

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