On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 19:45 +0000, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 12:24:50 -0700 > Robert Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > > Hello Robert, > > >Wrong. Evil web sites don't care how you access them, clicking or > >typing. > > That's true of course. I think AP's point (expressed poorly perhaps) is > that a phishing email will likely contain a link to a web site that > impersonates a legitimate one. For example; > > <A href="dodgy/phishing/web/site">Text to lure you</A> > > If you type the name of a legitimate site, rather than rely on the link > in an email, you're less likely to end up visiting a dodgy site. In > fact, I get emails from the banks I have dealings with that suggest you > type in their url rather than rely on links to avoid any mishaps, > because they (the banks) know that phishing attempts are often made > using clones of their login pages on dodgy sites.
If we move the mouse cursor over the "Text to lure you", we usually see the "dodgy/phishing/web/site" somewhere displayed by our MUAs. I usually receive "My house bank links" that in reality are "Some obscure never ever-land links". Very nice are "police" links. E.g. "We detected child porn on your computer. Just pay 50,-€ and it's ok." The German "police" not only allows you to have child porn on your computer, if you pay 50,-€ ;), they also write in broken German ;). I wonder about the target group of such phishing mails. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1386101799.3249.143.camel@archlinux
