Do you smell that?… I dunno, like, low tide or dead phish? Yeah, thats it!
The ink is barely dry on my last post on PayPal phishing and I got another one!
This one is also from some poor ISP site in Amsterdam. Really, don’t they have anything else to do over there?
At least get a better [...]

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Here is one of my favorite types of phish! Please pass the tartar sauce?..
This urgent message from PayPal is to inform you that your account may have been breached and you MUST login within 48 hours or they well give your account a lobotomy!
The usual stars of this fictional series are cast: Generic greeting; poor [...]

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Why do we always pick on Denmark?
Yes, Virginia, even plain text emails can be like the North Atlantic in December…
Note the generic “Dear Customer” and the poor grammar.
Yes, the bogus link is not hidden this time. This is either a really dumb phisherman or is praying his recipients are naive guppies.
However, www.konverce.com is NOT nstarcu.org [...]

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PHISH: Fraudulent emails that use stolen company graphics, and sometimes language, from legitimate companies in an attempt to lure you into logging on to a fake site, also using stolen graphics and coding, to steal your credentials. Emails usually do not greet you by name or refer to your account. They use a threat of [...]

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So, you got an “e-card”?
Don’t get so excited yet…. Yes, someone thought of you so much they may very well have sent you a virus, or a phishing attempt!
Learn how to read “beneath” the lines…….
Even though every other link on this email message takes me to the actual Hallmark site the one that you [...]

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