Got an email from Amazon, “Your account is eligible for monthly rewards”. It’s been sitting in my inbox for a few days and finally decided to clear things out. I have an Amazon Associates account, so I’m always getting emails from them about gift certificates and awards and associate payment structures, not to mention links suggested books and other products, so I didn’t think much about it. Clicked on the link to sign in. The site took a few seconds to load, and it was that extra little bit of time that allowed my head to clear.
I went back to the email and sure enough it was a scam going to some other site. I can usually spot these things a mile away, and I’ve told my wife 100 times to never click a sign in link in an email. Just manually go to the page and sign in. But wow, they actually almost caught me off guard. I guess if they are sending out a few million of these things a day, they are bound to get some bites, and not just from computer illiterate grandmas, but even from someone like me who knows the game but just lets their guard down for the space of a single mouse click.
Just think if you were on Mac OS!
what would be different on Mac OS?
Really, what would be different on a Mac?
Does a “cool” genie effect pop-up containing a 20 MB image of a fish appear on every e-mail in iMail* every time it thinks there is a phish attempt, followed by a personal letter from Steve Jobs apologizing for the mix-up?
(* I may have made up this product name, I’m simply guessing at what a mac e-mail application might be called)
not very interesting but my mum got phished once through amazon too.
still not very interesting, firefox 2 seems to sniff out “phishing pages”
I think he is on Mac Os…
and yes, what’s the difference?, I’m on Mac too.
I switched over to Thunderbird a while back and it’s done a pretty good job of spotting phish and warning me before I click a link.
… but then every once in a while I have fun and click it anyway and fill in all kinds of garbage. It’s good for a chuckle on an otherwise bad day.
Sorry, just trying to be funny. While I love the new security guard apple ad, they have tons that are a bit much to swallow… my favorite was one of the “switch” ads where–and this is a quote–it “never crashes”.