Friday, July 25, 2008

Phishing anyone?

Phishing: that age-old practice of attempting to get personal information out of someone by falsifying a data collection page. Normally, I can spot a phishing attempt at the email. But today I got a particularly well-done attempt. Check out this landing page.

Notice the URL, cleverly including the Chase official URL. Everything about the page looks official, except of course for the ridiculous notion that Chase would email you and ask you to go enter all of this information that they either already have, or have no business collecting in the first place.

So the moral is, be careful. Phishers are getting better and better. I always like to fill in these forms with dummy information like First name: Yorra, Last name: Djerch.

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