POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Phishing fail! : Re: Phishing fail! Server Time
6 Oct 2024 06:37:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Phishing fail!  
From: clipka
Date: 9 Feb 2015 10:12:40
Message: <54d8ce68$1@news.povray.org>
Am 09.02.2015 um 15:29 schrieb Francois Labreque:

>> Doctor John <j.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>>>
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29818720-Phish-IMPORTANT-Halifax-Online-Service-Message-facepalm
>>>
>>
>>> ROTFLMAO
>>
>> I don't get it.
>>
>
> The name of the company in the e-mail and the one at the phishing site
> don't match.
>
> I have similar e-mails at the moment, they all mention various financial
> institutions and are all signed "Charles Sirois, CEO of [insitution in
> question]"
>
> 1.  This would work better if I didn't get three of them at the same
> time...
> 2.  This guy, while a known name in these parts, isn't the CEO of any of
> those banks.  He used to own a telco, before turning politician.

This might actually be intentional: It automatically reduces responses 
to those of the most gullible people, to maximise yield in the later 
stages of the fraud.


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