Phishing Phollies

Here’s an interesting twist on trying to bully you into giving them what they want.

The claim is that they discovered your credit card (BOA details) has been used on a site supporting our friend bin laden and because of this activity BOA is "limiting" your account.

The claimed website is a real website, however, it is not what you think… The guy running it is, IMHO, a sensationalist and is using the shock value of the domain name to spout his agenda. He claims it WAS bin Laden’s site but the domain name expired on 9-11-2001 and he snapped it right up.

In any event, the email is 100% phish phoop! By now I should not have to point out the obvious identifiers to you, the generic greeting, the threat of account problems, the mistakes ("that your that your" in the first line), and the all important URL that points to an IP number and not a domain name, which, BTW, is no longer reachable.

I did think it was fun that they included the text about always looking for your SiteKey before signing in…

WARNING: Personal opinion alert! Queasy people stop reading now…

I still am amazed at the large number of people who fall for phishing, even with all the obvious clues, or the "Nigerian" or Lottery scams. Then again, 52% of you voted for Bush… ‘nough said! As my pal Forrest says, "stupid is as stupid does"

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