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On 03/11/2012 13:04, Gordon Henderson wrote:
I've just received a very convincing phishing email from the Halifax - except I don't bank with them so it fell over right away! Every link in the mail went to the genuine Halifax page, e.g. Legal, Privacy, Security, Support etc. The only one that was a wrong 'un was the Continue button and even that was named verify.html which to the unwary is a benign name. However as Thunderbird had already flagged it as spam when I clicked the button (all fields empty of course) I got a warning and an IP address which it turns out is in America.On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Neil Winchurst wrote:After reading all of the posts to this thread I am feeling somewhat overwhelmed by it all, a bit lost in the wilderness. And a lot of the advice seems to refer to people who need much more security than I do. Or am I asking for too much?If you're an ordinary home-user using Linux then the reality is that you've little to fear.Take the same precautions that everyone /should/ take for any computer system - don't click on links or run programs without thinking first. Don't open suspect email, and so on.Gordon
That could easily catch the unwary especially if their mail client had not already pinged it as a scam.
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