{"id":13489,"date":"2008-11-30T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/11\/30\/um-no-phishing-allowed.html"},"modified":"2008-11-30T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T18:02:08","slug":"um_no_phishing_allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/30\/um_no_phishing_allowed.html","title":{"rendered":"Um &#8230; no phishing allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the verbiage is more believable, but they haven&#8217;t quite figured out how to make a really decent spoof of a web address:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Due to recent account takeovers and unauthorized listings, Capital One is requesting a new account verification procedure. From time to time, randomly selected accounts are placed under an advanced updating process based on merchant accounts \/ bank relations and on-file credit cards.<\/p>\n<p> We would like to inform you that your Capital One account is currently locked. To unlock your account, you need to confirm your information on file with us by going to:<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/h-74-2-228-70.atlngahp.covad.net\/secure\/update\/www.capitalone-online.net\/c1\/ssh\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/h-74-2-228-70.[covad address redacted]\/www.<wbr \/>capitalone-online.net\/c1\/ssh\/<\/a> <br \/> Capital One may also request scanned\/faxed copies of your photo ID.<\/p>\n<p> To speed up the verification process, please update your information within the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p> We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.<\/p>\n<p> Thank you for using Capital One.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It bears repeating to anyone who gets something like this, even if it looks legit:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Never click through.<\/li>\n<li> Go to the company main web page (do it by name, don&#8217;t do it from any address on the email), then go to your account information from there.<\/li>\n<li> Or call the customer service number on the back of the credit card or bank statement.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the verbiage is more believable, but they haven&#8217;t quite figured out how to make a really decent spoof of a web address: Due to recent account takeovers and unauthorized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29038,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/if-this-doesnt-make-you-paranoid-about-living-online.html","url_meta":{"origin":13489,"position":0},"title":"If this doesn&#39;t make you paranoid about living online\u00a0","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Aug-12 9:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"There are no easy answers here. The simplest would be to live offline -- but that's akin to saying that the best protection from terrorist attack is to live in a farmhouse in North Dakota. \u00a0The online world is not only here to stay, but increasingly it's becoming essential to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fimages_blogs%2Fgadgetlab%2F2012%2F08%2FmatHonan_v4edit-234x300.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14428,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/good-day.html","url_meta":{"origin":13489,"position":1},"title":"&#8220;GOOD DAY&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Apr-09 9:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes I don't think these guys are even bothering to try very hard. From: Upgrade Srevice Team (iinfo@update.com) To: account_up_grade@[domain I've never heard of] Subject: GOOD DAY\u00a0 Dear Webmail account User, This message is from Webmail account update Service team messaging center to all subscribers\/webmail users. We are currently upgrading\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Spam&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Spam","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/computer-security\/spam"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137703,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/21\/sometimes-it-feels-like-the-phishers-arent-even-trying-hard-any-more.html","url_meta":{"origin":13489,"position":2},"title":"Sometimes it feels like the phishers aren&#039;t even trying hard any more","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Jan-19 5:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh, come on. Google Translate could do a better job from whatever your native language is than this:WINNING NUMBER: WUNT\/0768\/UK\/2019Dear Award Winner,We are Celebrates our 167th years Annual Anniversary 2019; we rolled out over USD$260, 000, 000, 00 (Two hundred and Sixty Million United State Dollars) for our 167th Anniversary\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9431,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/07\/security_measur.html","url_meta":{"origin":13489,"position":3},"title":"Security measures","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Jul-06 9:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Had an interesting experience today. My primary credit card has been flaky of late in being passed for purchases, and a few days ago I got a call from the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10597,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/13\/gmail_about_to_make_life.html","url_meta":{"origin":13489,"position":4},"title":"Gmail about to make life even easier","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Dec-06 3:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So a bit over a month ago (early November), I managed to set up an autoforward for my root e-mail account on my hill-kleerup.org domain, so that all mail...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Computer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Computer","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/my-computer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/gmail.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6365,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/14\/thunderbird_08.html","url_meta":{"origin":13489,"position":5},"title":"Thunderbird 0.8","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Sep-04 10:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that I actually have it working, I'm happy with the 0.8 version of Tbird. My favoritest bit is that it allows all accounts to filter into the Local Folders,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Computer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Computer","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/my-computer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}