Received this lovely little mail purporting to be from ABSA (gmail spam filter didn't flag it).
Now, assuming you bank with ABSA, how would you tell that it's a phishing attempt?
from: ABSA. info@notify.msg.za via home.pl
to: [my e-mail address]
date: 11 January 2012 22:15
subject: You have a new Private Message
mailed-by: home.pl
Dear Customer,
Attention! Your ABSA online banking access has been
violated. We suspected someone other than you with IP 126.370.42.86 trying to access your informations.
Please verify your banking information with us to show
that you are not currently away.
You have to verify this as soon as possible to prevent
your online bank account from getting blocked
The non-ABSA email addresses and the poor grammar ("informations")?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle Intel i5 2500; AsRock Z77 Extreme 4; Asus GTX580; 4x 2GB DDR3 1333; Intel 520 240GB SSD + 2x WD 3TB + 2TB Samsung; Samsung 22X DVD/RW; 23" LG W2343T-PF; Huntkey 700W
home.pl? Since when is ABSA using a Poland mail server?
"Integrity" and "integer" both contain a Latin root meaning "whole; complete." The root sense, then, is that people may be said to be acting with integrity when their beliefs, words, and actions have a sense of unity or wholeness.
There is a pending transfer into you FNB account for security reasons and the OTP Telephone number
associated with your account. we would require you to confirm your account status and profile on
file with us before this transfer can be completed.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this action may have caused
Yours sincerely,
Online Customer Service
First National Bank
MOOD - Thirsty
A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
Timothy Casey
I doubt it. No-one ever pays money into my accounts!
MOOD - Thirsty
A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
Timothy Casey
Ron2K wrote:None of you lot picked up the rather interesting IP address in my one?
Forum IT dweebs, I am disappoint...
Fixed that for you.
Care to enlighten the rest of us?
MOOD - Thirsty
A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
Timothy Casey
My apologies. Even an uninformed pillock such as myself should have noticed that.
MOOD - Thirsty
A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
Timothy Casey
KatrynKat wrote:don't worry Oom Doo...
to me it looked like just another IP address...
how should i know the rules and diffs of IP addresses...
I actually finished 2 1/2 years of a BSc-IT degree... double
MOOD - Thirsty
A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
Timothy Casey
I saw the IP in bold, but my knowledge is a bit limited on those
"Integrity" and "integer" both contain a Latin root meaning "whole; complete." The root sense, then, is that people may be said to be acting with integrity when their beliefs, words, and actions have a sense of unity or wholeness.
You mean we'd been taught to 'program' in Java (using a notepadlike inteface - no wysiwig) and VB (not .Net - it had been around for a while but our lecturer didn't know it) and done some life skills stuff? Yes.
But we were also expected to be converse with Binary and Hex...
As a matter of interest - dropped out because of 2nd year maths and a lecturer who stated, and I quote "I cannot explain this to you, it is something you must 'feel'(aanvoel)..."
This after I got 89% for first year maths.
MOOD - Thirsty
A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
Timothy Casey