More Online Scams Target Earthlink, PayPal
from the suckers,-suckers,-everywhere dept
Just a day after reports came out about a "sophisticated" scam to get PayPal users to give up their name, social security number, credit card info, and bank account info was exposed, Earthlink is claiming they've stopped a similar scam targeted at their users. While, unlike scams in the past, these scammers are doing a much better job making their emails and websites look official, I'm still curious who actually falls for these things? Anyone sends an email asking for that sort of info and it's clear that it's a scam.
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You are suprized this still works?
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blaming the victims doesnt cut it dudes
as is we have you grandstanding and everyone else 'recording the facts' while everyday thousands of browsers are installed with slavish conformity to this most expensive and dangerous loophole of them all.
i have written to scores of sites and people - this one included - about this loophole and nobody seems to 'GET' that these things would not happen if the browser status bars would properly resolve target urls rather than merely echoing the first part of the string.
this part of 'the web' is broken badly from a usability pov and people writing browers like IS/NS/opera need to be told to protect the noob's by making URL AUTHENTICATION something that defaults to off.
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