[141645] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ready For A Good Laugh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Fri Jun 10 00:31:54 2011
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:31:44 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jimi Thompson wrote:
> Now I'm going to go off on you people - What kind of crack are you people
> smoking?
The same stuff they're smoking over at PayPal.
Some genius decided to send out E-mails which said:
"Hello <name removed>,
It looks like you may be using an outdated browser with known security issues.
Help keep your computer and your PayPal account protected by updating your browser today."
and included a link (different from what was represented).
Even magaged to fool the folks at spoof@paypal.com
11 pages of wtf? at:
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Fraud-phishing-and-spoof/New-scam/td-p/273626