Friday, October 12, 2007
 
Metaphish
A phish disguising itself as a warning about phishing scams. Brilliant!

Metaphishing


Although this phising scam warns the recipients that Citizens Bank Money Manager GPS users have been the target of phishing scams containing misspelled words, it obviously does not note that phishing e-mails often contain weird capitalization or lack punctuation, but then again, valid e-mails often contain these problems.

To be really helpful, it would include a tip about checking your status bar (that bottom line of text in some e-mail clients) or the mouseover text (in some e-mail clients) to make sure that the target of the link is the same as the link text, or it would explain that subdomains with legitimate-looking text are irrelevant if the actual domain, that is, the last thing before the .com, is not what it's supposed to be (such as vbv75.com).

But that would sort of spoil the phishing exercise, wouldn't it?


- posted by Brian J. @ 10:12 AM
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