Imagine if you got the following email: You may have noticed that we've created a new tool in FastNet Classic called the Online Vault. Hopefully you'll find it pretty handy - it allows you to securely store important personal information such as:
- IRD number [equivalent to the SSN in the US] - medical details - passport number - anniversaries, birthdays etc. This means that all your important information is in one secure place, allowing you to get hold of it easily, anytime you need it. No one else can access this information - only you! To see how the Online Vault works, click on the link below to play the 10- second challenge [Link to the Online vault site]. When you sign in, you're invited to enter (copied from the web page): Passport details, drivers licence, accounts, credit cards, next of kin, accountant, solicitor [lawyer in the US], medical conditions, allergies, vaccination history, doctor details, insurance contacts and insurance policies, and [a general-purpose field for anything else you may want to store]. Surprisingly, this isn't phishing email, it's genuine email from a bank. While the bank's security page warns about attacks where: A fraudster sends an email to a large number of email addresses. The email may appear to be from the email recipient's bank. The message urges the recipient to click on a link to update their personal profile or carry out some transaction. in this case the users can tell that the email is from the real bank because they also ask for your credit card numbers, medical history, and drivers licence, and no phisher would be that blatant. Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com