[Cialug] Time to change your passwords.

[Barry Von Ahsen]

agreed - a group I work with (very non-technical) started using paypal, 
so I preemptively made sure to state:

"never, never, never, never, never, ever click on a link in an email 
from paypal, always type the url into your browser and login.  if they 
really need info, there will be a message in your profile"


-barry



Jeff Davis wrote:
> I've gotten several questions recently from non-tech people who
> have gotten fake IRS emails with links in them that look like this:
>   http://www.irs.gov.go.nl
> 
> It was encouraging to me that those people recognized it enough
> to not click it at the time and ask someone else about it.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Lathrop Preston <lathrop at prestonfam.org> wrote:
>> Good point on this one. Granted you do have to trust the browser...
>>
>> while this overall issue may be a problem for the general public I
>> suspect most of us here wouldn't fall for things like the typo'd
>> addresses... but I could be wrong
>>
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