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House o' Shame: Amtrak
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Feb 14 21:46:16 2008
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:04:06 -0500
Steve Bellovin documents on his blog a recent attempt by Amtrak to
teach its customers to be phishing victims:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2008-02/2008-02-13.html
My comments:
"Phish someone, and you inconvenience him for a week.
Teach a man to be phished, and you screw him for the rest of his life."
--me
I got the exact same email from Amtrak. It is pretty disappointing to
me, but sadly not surprising, that big organizations are still
conditioning their users to become fraud victims.
--
Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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