[Sigia-l] What's your score?

Everett, Andy EveretA at wsdot.wa.gov
Tue Nov 29 12:56:37 EST 2005


Ahhh! I didn't look at the examples. My bad. Thanks, Matt.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Gessler [mailto:matthew.gessler at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 9:54 AM
To: Everett, Andy
Cc: SIGIA-L
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] What's your score?


Actually there was a dead give-away on each example...

In the status bar at the bottom of these emails there is a link
displayed. To determine if the email is a real, 99% of the time just
look for the company url immediately before the first "/".
In other words-
Real: auctions.ebay.com/
Fake: ebay.com.auctions/

Ebay actually has an informative guide to spoofing/phishing located here:
http://pages.ebay.com/education/spooftutorial/

Cheers,
Matt

On 11/29/05, Everett, Andy <EveretA at wsdot.wa.gov> wrote:
> I got 50%. I think the concept of the test is good but the premise is
> flawed.
> I labeled them all phishing as it all depends on the content of the
message.
> >From the companies I've done business with like Amazon and Paypal, I have
> received messages asking for my password. Any company listed there could
be
> used as a phishing target. Any company asking for your password or to
login
> and verify your information from a link provided in the e-mail is
phishing.
>
> Andy
>
> ------------



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