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What’s in your Junk Mail folder? (Mega Thread)
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<blockquote data-quote="MalwareVirus" data-source="post: 78988" data-attributes="member: 2689"><p><strong>DON'T CLICK E-MAIL LINKS. Please.</strong></p><p></p><p>There is a rash on spam lately, and hence a rash of calls from friends looking to clean their computers, that LOOK like it is from Amazon, UPS, FEDX, ETC that entice you to over react to the email in an attempt to hack your passwords. In the below image, you can see it proposing shows someone has just bought a $989 watch. The initial reaction is supposed to be "Oh Dammit - I need to cancel that ASAP." So you click the link without thinking and dutifully enter your user name and password.</p><p></p><p>However, if the user took a second to mouse over the actual link, they would see it wasn't a http://amazon.com address at all, but in this case a PHP on some .org site n the UK. (Crossed off so no one would have the urge to type it.) </p><p><img src="http://majorgeeks.com/images/dontclick.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><a href="http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=61" target="_blank">Read more</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MalwareVirus, post: 78988, member: 2689"] [b]DON'T CLICK E-MAIL LINKS. Please.[/b] There is a rash on spam lately, and hence a rash of calls from friends looking to clean their computers, that LOOK like it is from Amazon, UPS, FEDX, ETC that entice you to over react to the email in an attempt to hack your passwords. In the below image, you can see it proposing shows someone has just bought a $989 watch. The initial reaction is supposed to be "Oh Dammit - I need to cancel that ASAP." So you click the link without thinking and dutifully enter your user name and password. However, if the user took a second to mouse over the actual link, they would see it wasn't a http://amazon.com address at all, but in this case a PHP on some .org site n the UK. (Crossed off so no one would have the urge to type it.) [img]http://majorgeeks.com/images/dontclick.jpg[/img] [url=http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=61]Read more[/url] [/QUOTE]
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