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February 18, 2015 by John

Hostgator Phishing Scam

photo by David Castillo DominiciI got a suspicious email today that turned out to be a Hostgator phishing scam. It was very well constructed and I might have fallen for it except for two things that triggered my BS detector.

Filed Under: Phishing, Safe Computing Tagged With: domain registration, hostgator, phishing, phishing scam

April 8, 2013 by John

Phishing Email and How To Deal With It

Anti-spamA client forwarded to me a suspected phishing email she'd gotten. This one has many of the earmarks of a phishing email. The From field reads "WordPress", but is a link to some other email address which I won't publicize here. The subject line reads "Error with your installation" which is vague and yet contains the emotional trigger word "Error". The body of the email tries to look legitimate by including the WordPress logo and has a link which reads "Please install this security patch", another emotional trigger and a techie-sounding reference to a "patch".

Filed Under: Safe Computing, Security Tagged With: phishing, preview short links, verify links

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