On 17/09/2014 09:34 PM, Warp wrote:

> On the other hand, many people fall for any scam, no matter how poorly
> written, or what kind of email it might be. There's this story about
> the admin of the computer system of a school who sent warning emails
> to all the students. The email warned them to never answer emails
> asking for login and password information, because the admins, or
> anybody else, will never ask those via email (or any other non-secure
> way). He put an example of such a scam message (clearly labeling it
> as an example of what such a message would look like). He received
> replies from many students with their login and password info, for
> the simple reason that the example he put in the email asked for them,
> regardless of the big warnings to never do that.

Back when I was the admin, I sent round an email telling people to 
perform an upgrade, complete with pictures of what the various menu 
pages look like. I got a support call from one guy because when he 
clicked the button image in the email, nothing happened...

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