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Monday, 22 September 2003, 2:24 PM
Words of advice

If you've decided to go in for a phishing scam (using an e-mail purporting to be from some e-commerce firm to get the hapless sucker to go to a web page and enter in their credit card info), here are a few things you might want to consider as necessary for success:

  1. Don't send the mail from an account that doesn't look official. Sending it from "precious44257166@aol.com" will probably raise a few eyebrows.

  2. Make sure the domain on the web page you send them to actually looks official, too. AOL is probably not going have a billing center hosted on a Geocities page (see eyebrows, raised, above).

  3. Oh, yeah, and here's an important one, too: Don't send one of your e-mails to an FBI agent who specializes in computer fraud.

Yeah, that last one'll really bite you in the butt.


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