User0101
Premium
join:2002-12-12
S-ZZ9-PZA
clubs:  | Phishing With The Wrong Bait
Why anyone would follow a link sent to them through EMAIL "to update their account" after so many repeated phishing attacks over the years truly surprises me.
I feel sorry for the victims and I'm sure that this will be a tough lesson learned. |
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AnonProxy
Proxy of Anon
Premium
join:2001-05-12
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| The reason these thing work is because people are STUPID.
At this point and time NO ONE with half a brain should even respond to anything of the like.
If you are so stupid to respond to an e-mail from "paypal" (jesus just look at the headers if unsure) stay of the "interwebs". |
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brianiscool
join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL | Some people have no sense of intelligence. |
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technick
Premium
join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA
1 edit | reply to AnonProxy
said by AnonProxy  :The reason these thing work is because people are STUPID. At this point and time NO ONE with half a brain should even respond to anything of the like. If you are so stupid to respond to an e-mail from "paypal" (jesus just look at the headers if unsure) stay of the "interwebs". It's great that these "web consultants" were schooled... The web is full of idiots... I wonder how much these phishers make in a year. If it wasn't for these stupid people, phishers would exist and the international lotto / off shore fund transfers wouldn't exist.
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rammjet
join:2003-08-27
West Palm Beach, FL | reply to User0101
What if someone created a bunch of eBay pages with Buy Now prices that were too good to be true?
Then the link to Paypal was bogus? |
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CJ
join:2000-07-18
USA
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I like how people are quick to say others are stupid and whatnot. I guess the ones that do are perfect and have never made a mistake or done anything stupid themselves. Tons of new people join the internet everyday and are not savvy enough to distinguish a legit or fake email. You think an internet noob would even know what a header was, or an IP address for that matter.
You know what they say about people living in glass houses. |
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jsouth
Jsouth
join:2000-12-12
Wichita, KS
| Well with all the warnings that are on the news, in the papers and even on companies web sites that warn customers about these things, they still go right ahead and click on those links and blindly put in personal info? Yes those are idiots. I especially love the morons who give personal info to phishers who send attempts to them with misspellings and some phishes from companies that the customer doesn't even have an account with. I've made mistakes, but I have to call a spade a spade too.
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BTK is guilty!!!! |
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CJ
join:2000-07-18
USA
| I am sure that a lot of the public is like myself and rarely watches TV. I prefer to be more productive than a vegetable in front of the tube. Other than on DSLR, I don't see a whole lot about it on the internet either. At least not to the amount at which it would stick in my head.
I am having a hard time seeing how one is stupid for falling for this scam. Some of the ones I have actually gotten seem very legit and if not informed I could have easily fallen for it. I could see if you fell for it more than once or if you had actually read something on it then fell for it. But to call someone stupid because they fell for something they had no clue about is a little ignorant itself. To call them misinformed or uninformed would be a better term IMO. |
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conchchowder
@comcast.net
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Many graduating college seniors don't know how to fill out a form, create an email account, operate an mp3 player, or know what Thomas Jefferson is famous for. Read this and bawl. »baltimorechronicle.com/jul03_soapbox.shtml These same seniors become the lawyers and engineers this thread is referring to. |
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attsbcisgay
join:2003-03-18
Beverly Hills, CA
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said by brianiscool :Some people have no sense of intelligence. Some people are very intelligent.
You're looking at one. |
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operagost
join:1999-08-02
Spring City, PA | reply to conchchowder
Well heck, even this college professor doesn't know that the amendment awarding women suffrage passed in 1920, not 1922! |
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Fluker
join:2005-04-07
West Lafayette, IN
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I have stressed so so many times to so many people that the correct way to deal with sites asking for attention of any kind is to simply delete any emails from them and then go to the site. Payal ebay etc all have message centers that will tell you if something is up.
Good
Ebay: Please log in to update your billing
BAD
Ebay:Your account info is fubar hit this Clicky thing to fix it |
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