These social engineering fraud methods are increasingly sophisticated. Why break into your house when you can do the same from the comfort of North Korea/China/wherever and a bit of location misdirection? I find these social engineering phishing methods quite fascinating. These big companies resell their data willy nilly, so who can predict what phishing schemes people can think up.
I use 3 browsers: FF, Chrome and Tor. I banish all Google-related activity to Chrome. I encourage as much misdirection and mayhem of user activity as possible. On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 15:50, Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > On 1/15/20 3:46 PM, Peter King via talk wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 03:00:36PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > > >> When I order something from Amazon not long after I get emails from > various > >> phisherpeople claiming to be UPS or some other delivery company. > >> The messages are coming through an old email address that is badly spam > >> filtered. > > I had that very thing happen to me on an order from Amazon about ten days > > ago. The phishing was via a note from UPS that they couldn't deliver a > > package, but to get it I had to give them my credit card number ... at > the > > time I was surprised, since it followed close on the heels of one > delivery > > and right while I was waiting for another. So, almost plausible. But as > > usual, the phishing email was so clumsily written and executed that there > > was no question but that it was a fake. > > > > > Yep that's it. > Here is what I got. > > > > Dear Customer, > > > > We attempted to deliver your item at 1:30pm on 14th January, 2020. > > (Read enclosed file details) > > The delivery attempt failed because nobody was present at the shipping > > address, so this notification has been automatically sent. > > > > > > If the parcel is not scheduled for re-delivery or picked up within 72 > > hours, it will be returned to the sender. > > > > Label Number: (Read enclosed file details) > > Class: Package Services > > Service(s): (Read enclosed file details) > > Status: e-Notification sent > > > > Read the enclosed file for details. > > > > UPS Customer Service. > > > > > -- > Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 > Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 > al...@netvel.net || > > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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