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On 02/11/12 13:44, Julian Hall 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. > > That could easily catch the unwary especially if their mail client had > not already pinged it as a scam. > > Julian > Pleased that you caught it. I also get emails offering 'friendship' whatever that means. The most recent one seems to be from somewhere in Russia. To me just a silly waste of time, but no doubt some people do get caught. That is the pity of it all. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq