On 2017-03-08 09:53, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> Look carefully. Our local morning TV news (SouthWest Missouri) about a >> scam that had a very good visual imitation of the legitimate site. >> What >> warned the possible victim was looking carefully at the displayed URL. > > I strongly doubt that a fake site would ask the same security > questions > and accept the answers when they are correct. Not quite the second > layer > security of sending a one-time numeric key to my cell phone, but close > enough.
A man in the middle or a man in the browser attack would ask the right security questions. As soon as you provide the answers they'd put up some fake error page and then bleed your account. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug