Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related
On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 19:45 +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 12:24:50 -0700
> Robert Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Robert,
>
> >Wrong. Evil web sites don't care how you access them, clicking or
> >typing.
>
> That's true of course. I think AP's point (expressed poorly perhaps) is
> that a phishing email will likely contain a link to a web site that
> impersonates a legitimate one. For example;
>
> <A href="dodgy/phishing/web/site">Text to lure you</A>
>
> If you type the name of a legitimate site, rather than rely on the link
> in an email, you're less likely to end up visiting a dodgy site. In
> fact, I get emails from the banks I have dealings with that suggest you
> type in their url rather than rely on links to avoid any mishaps,
> because they (the banks) know that phishing attempts are often made
> using clones of their login pages on dodgy sites.
If we move the mouse cursor over the "Text to lure you", we usually see
the "dodgy/phishing/web/site" somewhere displayed by our MUAs.
I usually receive "My house bank links" that in reality are "Some
obscure never ever-land links".
Very nice are "police" links. E.g. "We detected child porn on your
computer. Just pay 50,-€ and it's ok." The German "police" not only
allows you to have child porn on your computer, if you pay 50,-€ ;),
they also write in broken German ;). I wonder about the target group of
such phishing mails.
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