January 9, 2004

Warning

SayUncle passed around a warning awhile back about a way to almost transparently spoof links to websites.

Lo and behold, in my e-mail yesterday, I got a request from my bank to "verify" my account by clicking a link in the e-mail.

Did I click the link?

Are you kidding me? Heck no!

I called my bank to let them know what was going on and they told me they were already aware of it, had traced the e-mail and were taking action.

So, the moral of the story is you can't trust links embedded in e-mail. Use your fingers and type them in yourself, then bookmark the legit site, and you're safe from counterfeits.

Posted by Rich at January 9, 2004 1:35 PM | TrackBack
Comments

One solution is to just disable HTML e-mail in your client, and not use IE.

--Chris

Posted by: Chris Wage on January 9, 2004 1:55 PM

But disabling HTML takes all the fun out of the Paris Hilton spam!

Posted by: Brehd Patchley on January 11, 2004 7:12 PM
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