{"id":4339,"date":"2003-09-22T14:24:06","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T21:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2003-09-22T14:24:06","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T21:24:06","slug":"words_of_advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/22\/words_of_advice.html","title":{"rendered":"Words of advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve decided to go in for a phishing scam (using an e-mail purporting to be from some e-commerce firm to get the hapless sucker to go to a web page and enter in their credit card info), here are a few things you might want to consider as necessary for success:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Don’t send the mail from an account that doesn’t look official. Sending it from “precious44257166@aol.com” will probably raise a few eyebrows.\n
  2. Make sure the domain on the web page you send them to actually looks official, too. AOL is probably not going have a billing center hosted on a Geocities page (see eyebrows, raised, above).<\/p>\n
  3. Oh, yeah, and here’s an important one, too: Don’t send one of your e-mails to an FBI agent who specializes in computer fraud<\/a>.<\/ol>\n

    Yeah, that last one’ll really <\/i>bite you in the butt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you’ve decided to go in for a phishing scam (using an e-mail purporting to be from some e-commerce firm to get the hapless sucker to go to a web…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48618,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/a-big-phishing-catch.html","url_meta":{"origin":4339,"position":0},"title":"A Big Phishing Catch","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Dec-14 5:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I admit that I rely a lot on \"boy, this formatting looks bad\" and \"gee, this doesn't sound like it was written by a native speaker of English\" in evaluating phishing emails (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phishing). 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