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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

New Phishing Mail Tactics

I guess every user with an email address has already received at least one email from a bank, financial website or other website asking him to download a security patch to avoid account termination or a ban. Those mails are so common nowadays that they seem to lack the desired affect and that less and less users are falling for those phishing emails that point to the download of a Trojan of course and not a security update.

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Categories: Email, Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 26th, 2007
  • Comments: 1

Critical Account Information from JPMorgan Chase Bank

I received two of those fake emails today and thought that it would be a good opportunity to dissect it to show how phishing emails try to lure customers into a trap. The first and most obvious hint that something is wrong with this email is if you think about the subject of the email.

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Categories: Security, The Web

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