Related to email but not a specifically Eudora question:
Just got this email, the most recent of several from Peru that claims
to be in charge of my USA email account.
What gets me is the link they want me to use, http:/mail.rcn.commmm.
I put in 3 extra m's so no one would accidentally click on it.
So they left out a slash, was that on purpose?
Would correcting and clicking on the zimbra link install a virus,
or is it just phishing?
micky wrote:
Related to email but not a specifically Eudora question:
Just got this email, the most recent of several from Peru that claims
to be in charge of my USA email account.
Let them claim heaven and hell, and dump them into trash. Or make
a filter that does that for you before you even have a chance to
look at the message.
What gets me is the link they want me to use, http:/mail.rcn.commmm.
I put in 3 extra m's so no one would accidentally click on it.
You're a bit shortsighted. Had you hovered the cursor over that
would-be-url, you'd have noticed right away the real underlying
url *does* have two slashes. It's a very common way to lure people
to malware sites, but it's also commonly used by trusted companies
hide a url ("difficult" for the computer-ignorant) in the way it's
done on webpages.
So they left out a slash, was that on purpose?
You bet! It draws attention, and out of curiosity people will click
on the "incorrect" link.
Would correcting and clicking on the zimbra link install a virus,
or is it just phishing?
Just click on it and you may be lost already.
-p
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