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October 31, 2004
Most realistic phishing page yet.
For paypal. This one that I have to assume would fool me if I wasn't already sensitized to emailed phishing scams, and/or if I wasn't technically knowledgeable enough to read the URL and know the site is at some unknown IP address. Note that all the links work, by linking through to the real paypal site.
I received multiple copies of this scam at a different email addresses within a period of a few minutes today... I assume they're going to try and make as much money as they can in a few hours and see how much money they can take before they cut all traces. It'll be interesting to see if the phishing page is still operational on Monday.
Update: I didn't check up on this for a while, but on Nov 22, 2004 a commenter to this post mentions that it's gone now.
October 31, 2004 in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
As of 22.11, it no longer works.
Posted by: Markus at Nov 22, 2004 6:23:51 AM
I also got this email but my toolbar picked up on it. I'm not ignorant to the whole phishing thing, I just don't always notice their tricks.
Lucky I had my toolbar.
Great Blog BTW...
Posted by: Nexus at Dec 6, 2005 11:34:59 PM
Could you tell me what toolbar you were using? I was using Netcraft and it kept crashing my explorer.
Thanx.
PS. Nice Blog Gary!
Posted by: Richard P. at Dec 10, 2005 11:30:37 PM
I use the CallingID toolbar (http://www.callingid.com)
Never had any problems...
Posted by: Nexus at Dec 14, 2005 11:59:32 PM
