phishing emails

Thomas Taylor linxt at comcast.net
Thu May 26 23:33:04 UTC 2005


On Thursday 26 May 2005 08:03, Vassilios Kotoulas wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 09:55 -0500, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
> > I suspect that no one on this list is likely to be fooled by the
> > "Please send me your login and password" phishing emails.
>
> I wouldn't be that sure. A lot of newbees is asking this mailing list
> for advice so I just wanted to warn them.
> --
> Vassilios Kotoulas
> GPG Key ID 0xb1703df8

Unfortunately very true.  Many newbies switch to linux because they heard it 
was more resistant to viruses and invasion than winbloze and don't realize 
that caution is still required.  

Part of what WE need to do is show them how to be more resistant to the junk 
out there.

Tom

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Tom Taylor
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