phishing for fun and ZERO profit

[Courtney]

Reminds me of the guy who tried to sell pot to a uniformed cop in a police
car

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> Of Fairlight
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> Oh, this was too good not to share.  :)
>
> I read an article the other day on phishing kits.  Most of
> you are probably familiar with the term phishing by now, but
> for those few that aren't, it refers to the email that
> purports to come from reputable (or at least
> legal) businesses, contains links to a bogus web site that
> looks just like the real one, and asks you to update your
> membership information so they can harvest sensitive personal
> data.  (Hell, I've gotten ones purporting to be from Citi,
> and I don't even have a Citi card or account!)
>
> Recently, there has been a trend towards making this kind of
> nonsense accessible to those not willing to make the effort
> to replicate a site.
> There are kits being distributed that have a full eBay or
> PayPal or Yahoo or whatever, all set up and ready to go,
> complete with graphics web pages, layouts, etc.  They include
> mass-mailing software and the like.  Basically, it's become
> phishing for script-kiddies now.
>
> But apparently it hasn't been dumbed down -quite- enough.  I
> just got one a minute ago that purported to be from
> memberupdate at ebay.com, but originated in the Ukraine and was
> then routed through France.
>
> The -truly- funny part--the part that tells me it hasn't been
> AOL-ified quite enough yet to be truly hazardous--is that the
> message was
> -completely- blank!  No HTML page.  No text page.  It had
> only headers, including a subject that had "Please Read" as
> the last two words (a warning bell chimes here at the very
> sight of these words in a subject).  But it was a completely
> blank message.  No multipart anything...no content.
> Nothing I could have missed.
>
> That was truly one of the funnier things I've seen today.
> Someone was apparently too stupid to be able to use a -kit-
> to perpetrate this kind of activity, when it's probably all
> laid out nicely and neatly.
>
> Truly amazing.
>

Mark,

Just as amazing as the stupid things other criminals do.  One reads about it
all
the time.  Like the person who tried to hold up a person at an ATM machine
last
year.  The only problem was that the ATM was in the police station.

There used to be a Bank branch in NYC across from MACY's.  That's 34th St
and
7th avenues.  A block from Madison Square Garden.  Now this bank front wall
was
all glass.  At lunch time there are usually 2 cops directing traffic.  Plus
the
bank is 2 blocks from the mid-town south police station.

Imagine my surprise when coming back from lunch to see a person with a gun
pointed at a teller.  A branch officer walked out of the branch, told one of
the
cops what was happening.  With 2 minutes 2 detectives were in the bank.
Each
with guns drawn, they approached the would-be robber, each placed the barrel
of
their gun behind one of his ears.  He put his gun down and gave up.  He had
quite an audience.

So, who ever said that these people are smart.



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