I just had a phish addressed to “Dear Fleet Bank valued customer”. I have, of course, never heard of Fleet Bank.<\/p>\n\n
It goes on in the usual style: As part of our ongoing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website, we have introduced a new special FraudAction Detection Program.This program should provide an earlier awareness of potential fraudulent activities with your account.We have already enrolled your account in this Program. Membership is free, however, in order to authenticate your enrollment please confirm your account details below<\/span><\/p>\n\n Not only have they got the English a bit wrong, though no wronger than corporations often do; the address to which you are invited to click has been mistyped. The link goes to http:\/\/21099.217.3\/sys\/fl\/,<\/a> which Sam Spade can’t resolve at all. Presumably, they dropped a full stop.<\/p>\n\n Oh, and the time stamp on the letter is set two hours ahead of GMT.<\/span> That would be, hmm, yes, somewhere in Eastern Europe. Who would have thought it? And the date is Monday 12 Jan 2004.<\/p>\n\n On the other hand, if you bank with Egg,<\/a> they have passwords that are not case sensitive and don’t allow punctuation. It’s hard to work out sometimes just who of the people pretending to be a real online bank has money in their vaults.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just had a phish addressed to “Dear Fleet Bank valued customer”. I have, of course, never heard of Fleet Bank. It goes on in the usual style: As part of our ongoing commitment to protect your account and to … Continue reading