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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Sean Dennis
from: Jason Hud
date: 2009-10-13 02:22:22
subject: Re: Password Scam Widens to Google, Yahoo

Sean Dennis wrote:
> Hello, All.
> 
> While this doesn't involve BBSing, it does show the power of stupid people on 
> the Internet:
> 
> Password Scam Widens To Google, Yahoo
> 
> The scale of the phishing attack on Hotmail could stretch further than first 
> thought, with accounts on Google and Yahoo now threatened.
> 


well they are getting very good at it. i can understand why some people
have the wool pulled over their eyes.

a lot of these sites pull the graphics directly from the websites and to 
the untrained eye a lot of these emails/pages look legit.
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