[kwlug-disc] Password scam

[CrankyOldBugger]

It's regrettable, but you're right about that.  But in their defence,
stopping spam is like trying to hold back the tide..

On 23 October 2014 08:42, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) <
aklists at mixdown.ca> wrote:

>
> > On Oct 22, 2014, at 5:09 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > However, if you're the security conscious type, I know many banks also
> provide an email address for reporting phishing emails to their security
> team.  If you get a phishing email, you can forward it to "
> security at scotiabank.com" or whatever for their own investigations.
> Although I doubt they'll ever be able to put an end to this sort of scam.
>
> Like I said, I stopped sending phishing emails to them. They give you a
> generic response and never follow up, and when you respond to the generic
> response stating that yes, I do in fact know what phishing is (why else
> would I have sent you the email to phishing@?!) they respond treating me
> like I’m an idiot. No thanks, let them deal with the problem themselves.
> They clearly don’t want to actually solicit help.
>
> -A.
>
>
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