Archive for December, 2005

Email spoofing getting more sophisticated

Phishing attacks are becoming more and more elaborate.

Moments ago a curious PayPal scam landed at my PayPal address that we’ve never used for anything else than PayPal transactions.

The scam email contained one element only — an image that perfectly reassembled PayPal’s transaction receipt. More specifically, a payment receipt for an “inMotion iM4 Portable Audio System” supposedly purchased from Dell for $115.

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