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e-mail with a link you have to click, then you have to log into your bank
and know the answer to the "security question" I have set, which is
something only you and me should know, and the money will be
deposited. Easy!

I used to pay my rent by check (yay 21st Century!) until my bank gave me two free Interac transfers per month. More than that, and it's $1 each.

Having phishing scams here in Canada using this kind of links is quite
common. See for instance:

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/fraud-alert-interac-warns-customers-about-fake-e-transfer-emails

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/canada-revenue-agency-warns-of-text-message-phishing-scam-1.2296220

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Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 09:05:47 -0700
From: Rob Slade <rmslade@shaw.ca>
Subject: I have no sympathy *at all* ...

OK, bear with me. I *will* get to the security part.) (It may not be worth it, but ...)

I've been burying my aunt over the weekend. It was expected, she'd had a
good innings (she was awarded "Citizen of the Century," among other things), and it was great to swap stories with others who knew and loved her.

Number One Daughter has recently moved fairly close to that area, so we
stayed with her. Beautiful place, built on a slope, *way* too many stairs
for us to live there. For complicated reasons they have two dogs: Marley,
who is very old and now has arthritis among other things; and Fera, who is young, high-strung, somewhat nervous, and *extremely* high energy. Despite disparate ages and temperaments "the pack" has a great relationship.

Marley doesn't do stairs any better than we do. She has developed a weird front- legs-together-back-legs-together double bounce method of getting
*down* stairs, but can't get back up. But when she gets to the bottom of
the house, she can get out onto the deck, then down more stairs, then up the slope (which is steep but at least not stairs) to the front door.

The house came with an alert system for the front door. A motion sensor triggers a camera and sends a picture to Number One Daughter's cell phone.

However, most of the time this is unnecessary. Fera, noting that Marley is
at the front door, will run down through the house, out the back, up the
slope, check with Marley, then race back down the slope, and up through the house until she finds Number One Daughter. Aside from the specificity of
this activity, it's easy to tell that this is about Marley, because Fera
gets a very distinct look on her face. (It's all a very "What Lassie? Timmy hasn't fallen down the well, but is hiding out from aliens who want to
abduct him, while running away from a dinosaur that Farmer Jones created
from old DNA that was lying around the barn?" type situation.) Fera's alert usually comes before the high tech door system.

Thing is, this is one of those cheap "security" systems that have wretched security themselves, and are probably sending data back to China. Which
means that, somewhere in some monitoring station in China, someone keeps getting, and having to pay attention to, alerts about Marley needing to get
in the front door. And the system behind it has to commit bandwidth,
storage, and processing for it.

I have *absolutely* no sympathy for those people at all ...

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