Don’t ya just love spam, luckily being in the computer industry for a few years i know what to look for, however it all comes down to education you either know or you don’t and this could catch you out. Take this email from well it appears to be from facebook telling me that the login process has changed. It’s how people steal passwords and usernames, it could have easily come from your bank.
Dear Facebook user,
In an effort to make your online experience safer and more enjoyable, Facebook will be implementing a new login system that will affect all Facebook users. These changes will offer new features and increased account security.
Before you are able to use the new login system, you will be required to update your account.
Click here to update your account online now.
If you have any questions, reference our New User Guide.
Thanks,
The Facebook Team
Looks innocent enough, how many people do you know who would click on the link?
Looking more closely at the link
http://www.facebook.com.kasqwesvw.eu/globaldirectory/LoginFacebook.php?ref=0065264488872073228537252130016384087376
7523328122998920070486462291279600104&email=paul@paulmellors.net
you’ll notice it’s from kasqwesvw.eu i’m pretty sure that’s not facebook, going to the actual domain
Reported Web Forgery!
This web site at kasqwesvw.eu has been reported as a web forgery and has been blocked based on your security preferences.
Web forgeries are designed to trick you into revealing personal or financial information by imitating sources you may trust.
Entering any information on this web page may result in identity theft or other fraud.
So what can you do about it? Well you can have a spam filter? Either a personal one on your machine or if your ISP has spam filtering enable it.
Also you can not login to your accounts no matter who they’re with from an email, most institutions nowadays always state, we don’t send emails…..Always remember to go to the actual website and log in.
Finally if you’re wondering what this is technically called, word of the day #235 PHISHING remember it.
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The fact also that somewhere there will be a grammatical error (implying it’s been written by either a spazz or a foreigner) is a bit of a giveaway.
Got to love phishing attacks. I’ve noticed recently a heck of a lot of spam getting through GMail – thing’s that I’d marked as spam in the past, but now returning, as if they’ve reset something at their end….