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Re: There are no limits to human stupidity.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sat May 13 17:43:40 2006
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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 23:02:14 +0200
In-Reply-To: <87lkt6psl1.fsf@snark.piermont.com> (Perry E. Metzger's message
of "Fri, 12 May 2006 22:27:22 -0400")
* Perry E. Metzger:
> The following message is, sadly, real. The URLs have been altered a
> bit to conceal some personal information of the bank customer. (The
> HTML version, naturally, just provides click throughs instead of
> saying "copy and paste this into your browser".)
>
> I would comment on it, but really, what more can I say?
>From a previous Chase mailing ("Introducing Chase Identity
Protection").
| If you have any concerns about phishing, cut and paste this link
| into your browser instead: www.chaseidentityprotection.com enter
| offer code xxxxx.
Needless to say, the mass-mailing was not sent from Chase's own
infrastructure, but by a contractor. I've heard that they even use
fuzzy matching to recover your email address from your postal address.
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