Yahoo! Phising Attack

[Sympology]

http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com/alerts/alert.php?AlertID=403

Only the truly stupid believe they know everything.
Stu.. 2004

 

[kHz]

Why do people still click on links or open email with a subject line that doesn't make any sense or from somebody they don't know?

People by now have to be aware of these fraudulent attacks, yet they work because people continue to perpetuate them. Why?

 

[sleipnir214]

I understand that your question was largely rhetorical, but I'll answer with my own experience.


I had a user infect her machine twice in one week with two different email viruses. Both viruses came to her with a spoofed sender address as the current address of an attractive male former coworker. Both viruses arrived with subject lines of the form "with love".

When I asked why she would open the second email after the problems opening the first, her defiant answer was, "I'm 48 years old and single. If Big Don sends me an email with the word 'love' in the subject line, by God, I'm going to open it."

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TANSTAAFL!!

 

[kHz]

Oh brother.

With a thought process like that, we'll forever have propagation of these things.

 

[devastator]

Then I would send the 48 your old virgin an email with the subject line "hate you for opening this x100000!"

Reality is some people are just "truly" stupid, lonely, and desperate.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

 

[tfg13]

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And the OCD?