{"id":86,"date":"2007-08-03T12:51:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/03\/phishing\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T12:51:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T16:51:42","slug":"phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/03\/phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize I&#8217;m probably not the typical e-mail user, but I&#8217;m constantly amused at how pathetic phishing e-mails are. So this is a public service announcement&#8230; Don&#8217;t trust e-mails:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>That claim to be from a big, legitimate organization, such as a greeting card company or the Nigerian government, yet are mailed from something like a Yahoo account.<\/li>\n    <li>That link to a random IP address as a company&#8217;s website.<\/li>\n    <li>That ask you download a .exe file for no apparent reason.<\/li>\n    <li>That tell you that someone you&#8217;ve never heard of has sent you agift.<\/li>\n    <li>That claim that the Nigerian government owes you lots of money if only you can send some money to the guy e-mailing you.<\/li>\n    <li>If you &#8216;win&#8217; $2.5 million in an online UK lottery drawing that you never entered, that will be payed out from their Africa branch, after you contact their &#8220;fiduciary agent&#8221; with an e-mail address on Yahoo in Poland. (I give them credit for knowing the word fiduciary, though.)<\/li>\n    <li>If e-mail from a complete stranger has nothing but an attachment. (Since I&#8217;m on Linux, where .exe viruses won&#8217;t do any damage, I opened the attachment, a ZIP file. It actually just contained a PDF with spam in it. But who (besides me) is dumb enough to open attachments from strangers that don&#8217;t even have an explanation?)<\/li>\n    <li>If the Central Bank of Nigeria says you won $15 million, but that their payment system is broken so they need your bank account information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When convincing looking e-mails come in purporting to be for a bank trying to &#8216;confirm details&#8217; after &#8216;a problem with your account,&#8217; I can see how some people might fall for it. But when the Central Bank of Nigeria is trying to deliver you $15 million in cash for no apparent reason, but needs your bank account information first? And the e-mail is littered with misspellings and just nonsense? How could <em>anyone<\/em> fall for that?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize I&#8217;m probably not the typical e-mail user, but I&#8217;m constantly amused at how pathetic phishing e-mails are. So this is a public service announcement&#8230; Don&#8217;t trust e-mails: That claim to be from a big, legitimate organization, such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/08\/03\/phishing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}