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Re: Wow
According the the Miller article, this all starts with a spoofed email...clicking on the spoofed email link causes IE to open, then close, then re-open with the spoofed address/status bar(s).
So, at the moment, it seems you could not accidetnally stumble on this kind of scam while simply websurfing, unless you fall for a spoofed email first.
So, it again comes down to teaching people that email is not always truthful, and to be skeptical of emails that have an urgent warning that you bought something or need to update your account, whatever...
It's a shame this kind of thing does not get TV news attention. Just a 2 minute blurb by a newscaster would reach enough people to help educate the masses. How many people would know enough to do the research online (besides us)?
Edit: The second spoof report says that this happened just surfing the web, now that's scary! And it reduces the faith I would have that any web site is what it claims to be without having to Source-check every page I go to. For that, I would stop using the web unless I hand type in every url I want (I already practically quit email). Seriously, Microsoft needs to start over from scratch with IE, or just buy up Mozilla and rebadge it (can anyone say Mosaic?). |
