Voice Phishing Hits PayPal

Chai Vanilla writes "The latest social engineering phishing attack is now using phones instead of fake web sites. Identity thieves have spammed fake PayPal account compromise warnings to lure users into dialing a phone number and giving up credit card information. Unlike normal phishing e-mails, there is no URL or response address. Instead, the e-mail urges the recipient to call a phone number and verify account details."

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Re:In school, not when signing up...

[stonecypher]

But I do believe we have a right to call people stupid when they do things like fall for a PayPal scam, buy from spam, send important (highly confidential!) information over email, refuse to apply patches (or not know how), and so on, and so on.

Did you know that 85% of dead televisions just have a blown fuse? Did you know the $120 transmission fluid replacement at Jiffy Lube is a twelve dollar bottle of green grease, and the opening and closing of one valve? Did you know that almost everything a plumber ever actually does is run a drain snake and a plunger?

I mean, we have Sex education, we have Driver's education, I don't think it's unreasonable that we know the computer equivalent of wearing a condom, stopping at red lights, buckling your seatbelt...

Here's the difference: one costs people their lives, the other costs them an hour at the local computer shop. I don't think it's unreasonable that we know how to maintain appliances; nonetheless, nobody requires it, because that's batshit retarded.

Most people think I'm a snobbish bastard, like every other Linux user.

It's got nothing to do with your being a Linux user. It's because you're condescending and because you can't fathom that some people don't have the time or the desire to learn to maintain their computers. Believe it or not, some people have better things to do with their lives.

Next time you pull into a jiffy lube, call a repair person, go to a barber shop, buy art tools, purchase clothes or engage in any service activity whatsoever, please remember that that's something you could learn to do and then spend your life doing, just like a seventy year old woman could spend a year reading tech sites and manuals and getting up to speed on jargon.

Guess what? You don't want to either. You're just too dense to tell the difference.