Re: [nukkad] spam beware!

[Mean Drake <>]

Hello Tirumurti,

These are called phishing attacks. The BEST cure for it is, not to use clicks 
to go to any website that manages important accounts for you. Be it paypal, or 
even your bank or credit card site. Manually type it in a new window of your 
browser and make sure you don't make spelling mistakes. Of course IE and 
Firefox have phishing filters now but better to be safe than sorry.
Yahoo has done an excellent modification to their login page. You upload an 
image that will always in future display next to login box. So if you went to 
site phishing for yahoo logins, and you don't see the image there ... you dont 
login there and check the site. I wish other sites would follow.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 9:10:25 PM, you wrote:

> a new spam seems to be going around. the web page looks like the real
> thing to the uneducated.
> beware
> tv
> --------------------------------------------------
> Dear PayPal  User,

> We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your PayPal
> account from a foreign IP address.

-- 
Best regards,
 Mean

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