I don’t know about you, but I have been getting alot of phishing emails. Phishing is the goofy name for a spam email that attempts to collect personal information about you by using a legitimate-looking email. It’s a little more sophisticated than the “Hi I am Mr. Rochard Mbotatu and I am needing your help to recover my 10 million dollars bank account stolen from my mother who was Princess of Zaire when our government was overthrown” emails that everyone’s heard of by now.
The emails I was getting awhile back are a phish scam. Recently, I’ve been getting them from folks claiming to be eBay, the IRS, and my favorite, the CIA. The CIA one was cute. It said that my IP address was logged viewing 20 illegal websites in the past month and that I should open up the zip file attached to the email to reveiw their logs. I’m not exactly sure what an illegal website is, but I’m sure if the CIA has a definition for an illegal website, that I’ve looked at a lot more than 20 in the past month….
Here’s a link I saw today about how to stop phish emails, and a little quiz to test your ability to spot them.
Link: http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html via Lifehacker
I got a 9 out of 10. Very interesting. Tres Diabolical.
9/10 I got the last one wrong. Hopefully cause my attention span was waning cause Thundy was playing a cool BF2 video while I was doing it, cause this crap is my business so I BETTER do well 🙁