On 23 Dec 2011, at 20:01, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Dan wrote: > At 11:34 AM -0700 12/23/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> No Apple hasn't outsourced their customer support to some unknown domain. > > LOL > > The geniuses at Chase Bank have hired a company to handle their email, that > has in turn hired an "ex-spammer" to do the actual SMTP work. So now all the > phishes AND legit emails from Chase are being flagged by ClamXav! Over the > past week, we've received phishies for Chase that look, from the headers, > legit, as they came out of the same SMTP servers! The HTML is near perfect. > The only way you can tell they're phishies is that the urls are dotted ips > instead of chase.com. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. They are not the only bank that does that kind of stuff. I received a legitimate email from my bank (M&T) that, doing the hover, showed that the link in it went to some third party tracking kind of site, but the shown address was MTB.com. I called to confirm that it was real. Then gave them Holy H*ll about the idiocy of preaching about online security and phishing education, then doing something like that. Len Why the surprise when banks do something reeaallyy stupid? Most bank executives have the IT awareness of a turnip. Usually they will use temps/outsource their IT functions, treat temps appallingly and then wash their hands of it if a less-than-savvy customer gets ripped off. At least that's true here in the UK:- I accept YMMV in the US of A. Any email from my bank asking me to go anywhere/do anything on the interwebs has firstly, all its headers shown then gets forwarded to the bank's ant-phishing email address. But I know that many aren't as careful/suspicious. It's good practice to view any link through the yellow box, then google any unexpected or similar-to-expected name shown, or "who-is" any IP address. Yes, it's a faff, but better than compromising my meagre pittances… Ted -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
