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Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 7, 2009 @11:57PM from the crime-almost-paid dept.

angry tapir writes "The head of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has stopped banking online after nearly falling for a phishing attempt. FBI Director Robert Mueller said he recently came 'just a few clicks away from falling into a classic Internet phishing scam' after receiving an e-mail that appeared to be from his bank."

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Re:After reciving an e-mail that appeared... by ArsenneLupin · 2009-10-08 02:07 · Score: 5, Informative

checked the links
You don't check the links, you don't use them at all. Instead, you access the site through a bookmark, or via typing in the URL manually if you no longer have a bookmark. It's all too easy to confuse an l with an I or a 1. Or rn and m depending on what font you have. Or the attacker might play similar tricks using exotic characters that you do not even know to exist (How similar is a greek capital Rho to a capital P?).