Yesterday, I got one of those phishing e-mails through paypal (and forwarded it on).
This morning, I got two. The first was run-of-the-mill - I supposedly sold somebody something, they paid me, never got whatever they bought and were now going to report me. I sent it on the ebay to deal with.
The second one was clever - it came from the Royal Bank of Canada and assured me that they were looking forward to taking care of my investments just as soon as I updated my account info because, apparently, somebody has fraudulently asked for customers' personal details. I thought that was pretty inspired - pretending to follow up on a phishing e-mail and hoping to get my account info that way. Gotta give them points for ingenuity!
Somebody tried to give me a virus today for the first time in a while. These usually come in batches.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like that to me, too. It's either lots of those emails or none at all. How did you know it was a virus?
ReplyDeleteMy mail software, Agent, is set to stop viruses and let me decide whether I want the mail cleaned or not. So far, I've always had it cleaned.
ReplyDeleteMost mail software will do that -- AOL's mail system is particularly bad in general.