Software

Last night I was talking to a surgeon who was wondering what he should do about an e-mail that he got yesterday apparently from his Bank asking him to log onto a web site and confirm his details or they where going to close down his access.

Luckily for him his copy of Windows ME got infected and stopped working so he couldn't respond and was worried that he would loose the ability to access his bank account. Once these where not that good but now they are getting very good and what's worse is that the Banks are not interested when you try to contact them about the problem.

When I was working Bank Security we would have had these forwarded to a Linux/Unix box isolated from the network and traced them to the original sender now of course that's too much trouble and costs money so it's not done and the customer is left holding all the risk, which is exactly what the bank wants as they can not be considered as responsible.

Now don't get me started on that one as they already steal as much money as possible and this is only showing just how little that they are concerned about protecting their customers.

Now all that I have to remember is if you can do an Inplace Install of ME without loosing all the installed programs. I'll give you one guess as to who is fixing his computer. :^0

Col

With a nice friendly persons Credit Card Details someone like Ossama or Saddam would do quite nicely.

All you have to do is make them much more scared of the responders than they are of the average user and I would bet that they would drop the scam like a Hot Potato particularly if they believed that the person who they where attempting to steal from would hunt them down and make them return the money with interest after encouraging them not to do it again.

I find it totally amazing that the threat of physical violence and torture makes most of these scams not want to deal with the responders one little bit. :^0

Col ]:)

and put bogus information. Such as F*ckOff N Die for the name, or something similar, and for the email address kissmy@a$$.com or similar or something snide and crude. For the CC info I'll but 1234567891011121, 16 digits. Oh and for the password I'll definitely type in F*uckOff&Die!. Don't know if it gets to the phiser, but it's funny as ****!

That's all that really important isn't it? :^0

Col ]:)