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Date:         Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:47:09 -0600
Reply-To:     jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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From:         jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: Phishing alert
Comments: To: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <6.2.3.4.2.20050923012448.027e9ac0@pop.ipa.net>
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I donšt have accounts with wells fargo, chem bank, or several other I get phishing mails from occasionally. All the phisher is looking for is a sucker in the pool. FBI says these guys will usually find one in every thousand mails they send out. It can take a couple hours for European, and longer for African/Asian sites to be shut down. Phishers usually phish outside of their own political/geographical region. The reason is the time lag to get them shut down if they are on opposite geographic/political regions and laws become tangled on trying to prosecute them.

One mode of operation is to get entry into an area/group where they can harvest the email addresses of a "community". This is effective as many people use the same email address for everything. As in our case many of a "community" will deal with each other usually with paypal as the medium. So they get the addresses and set up a fake paypal site and look for suckers. My paypal account also usually has no more than a few bucks in it. But many others use paypal as their business portal and keep some hefty balances. jimt

On 9/23/05 12:29 AM, "Max Wellhouse" <maxjoyce@IPA.NET> wrote:

> If you're like me where I don't keep more than 10 bucks in the paypal > account, then you don't get as many emails phishing for all that > non-existent cash. > > DM&FS > > "I had a roommate that was busted for counterfeiting pennies....you > know how they caught him? He had the head and the tail on the wrong > side....." > > "I lost $50 the other day, so I ran an ad in the paper....'Lost > $50..if found, just keep it'" > > Steven Wright


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