On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 4:15 PM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have begun to see fallout. Fortunately, it's amateurish so far. > > This moring my wife received an email, a long litany of woe and > injuries, allegedly from an old friend and college classmate. She > wanted us to send money to her in Spain. > > Called, it turned out that she was in good health at home in > Wellesley. She thanked Kate for her concern, and I emailed her with > some advice on how to recover from having her email accounts hacked. I've heard of folks who've fallen for this. What I can't imagine is the confluence of someone who I know well enough to blindly send money to AND think I'd be high enough on their list of folks to email AND wouldn't know that they were overseas already AND don't have someone I'd call immediately to ask "Have you heard from Joe?". Who has people in that category?! Mind you, if someone got hacked through browser spoofing in an Internet cafe *while overseas*, it would be a lot more plausible. The fact that this isn't the normal MO suggests that the much-vaunted browser spoofing isn't nearly as easy as folks make it sound... -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
