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Re: Phishing attempt, supposedly from Apple

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On 5/3/14 7:51 PM, in article 040520141251437417%YourName@YourISP.com, "Your
Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> 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.

"Apple <appleid@id.apple.com>" was the bullshit address in this case.

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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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