[FRIAM] "Drop box" phishing

[Owen Densmore]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Barry MacKichan <
barry.mackichan at mackichan.com> wrote:

> No, but the phishermen are getting better and better all the time. In some
> cases, I have to look at the message source, for email, to check what the
> real URLs are for the links. I see a lot from the .ru domains. I don’t
> really see how people can avoid these scams without a trove of knowledge
> that we used to consider ‘geeky’.
>

​Agreed: certainly check the domain name, and any links that are in the
email. Lots of email has a name w/ amazon, say, but the domain is
amazon.support.phony.com.

Boy is this getting old. What used to be useful is now threatening!

   -- Owen
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