Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:I don't understand those kinds of emails. I get them all of the time, Citibank or Washington Mutual. Wanting me to log in and verify account stuff. I don't use those banks. I know it is a scam, but it just seems like it would be so simple for the feds to figure it out.
Well not really, like I often say, email was once conceived ages ago by a band of hippies.
Those were the times were there was only a few hops over what was going to become the internet.
The email is nothing but secure or guaranteed.
To be exact the only valid thing that email server checks is that the recipient is valid, otherwise all the other datas of the enveloppe could be easily "forged" without any problem.
There is one easy trick that could be done with Outlook is to add a contact as yourself but changing the "display name as something totally different (even something like "dude@xzorz.com") and sending to yourself...you will see something like that you received an email for "dude@xzorz.com"...
Moreover those scammers uses a worlwide network of compromised machines (botnet)...tracing them back is almost impossible using the network...you should wait them to hack your banck account but...damn...
Anyhow the first rule is not to trust emails.
I tell you again :
never
trust
your
emails
Btw your login security sucks; when I login on my bank I have to enter the contract number (not the account *that part could be scammed ok*) then they issue me a string that I have to enter in my pocket passcode generator (it looks like a pocket calculator, it even works as a pocket calculator
).
That gives me back another string that I type to enter.
btw that system could be eventually unsecure but as the original string is valid less than one minute you'll need quite a bit of computing horsepower to break it.
yep.
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