Parry Aftab;
What do you suggest short of an absolute guarantee?
Common senses.
How do I advise consumers to tell the difference between legitimate
e-mails with embedded links and the phished ones using spoofed sites?
What if, you go to a branch office of a bank and, in a lobby of the
bank, hand
Most scams involve things that the institutions themselves would never do,
such as calling you on the telephone or sending as email to have you
update your confidential finanical information.
The email scams are fundamntally no different from telephone scams or
door-to-door confidence scams, where
I agree. With my mortgage customers (MISMO.org related) I have
argued that private certs signed by their business partner is better than a
cert issued by a well known cert company. Anyone can buy a cert from
the well known company. A cert signed by your business partner
can not be bought from any
People need to rely on their common sense. This isn't a technical
problem. It is a social engineering problem. Your best bet is to read
Kevin Mitnick's book "The Art of Deception". Of course, there will be
instances were banks will send their customers emails. But you should
treat those emails wi
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:40:57 EST, Parry Aftab said:
> It's a spoof, phished e-mail. No such credit card. I just confirmed with
> the powers that be in PayPal/eBay. The scams are good enough to confuse
> even ietf members. See the problem? How can someone tell this was a
> phishing expedition?
Damn
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Dean Anderson wrote:
> People need to rely on their common sense. This isn't a technical
> problem. It is a social engineering problem. Your best bet is to read
> Kevin Mitnick's book "The Art of Deception". Of course, there will be
> instances were banks will send their cust
Doug Royer;
I agree. With my mortgage customers (MISMO.org related) I have
argued that private certs signed by their business partner is better than a
cert issued by a well known cert company. Anyone can buy a cert from
the well known company.
As long as the cert company is a bank, you deposite mo
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 04:33:43 -0500 (EST)
shogunx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Dean Anderson wrote:
>
> > People need to rely on their common sense. This isn't a technical
> > problem. It is a social engineering problem. Your best bet is to read
> > Kevin Mitnick's book "The
