Archive for October 2nd, 2007

… and I will make you Phishers of Men!?!

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
18 As he was walking by the Sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon (called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen).
19He said to them, “Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people.” 20They left their nets immediately and followed him.
NET Matt 4:18

I received an email the other day claiming to be from the security people at PayPal.com. It said that there had been a security problem and asked me to log into my PayPal account to make make sure everything was OK. They even provided me a link to click on in the email. I could rush right to my account login page to check the safety of my money. However, a quick look at the actual address of the link confirmed my initial suspicions: It didn’t go to PayPal’s servers at all, it was another email phishing attempt. (more…)