Sunday, February 15, 2004
The Asbury Park Press had an article entitled "Dont get hooked" in there sunday press. Now the sub headline for the article says:
"It's called "phishing" and it's the latest way criminals are trying to steal your identity. They'll cll or send you official-looking e-mail to trick you into revealing your credit card number, Social Security number or other form of ID."
Let me point out some problems with this... Phishing, which can also be shown as <><'ing has been around for a long... Long... time. Way back in the day when Gerry and I were l33t AOL hAxX0rS we did a little <><'ing. We'd run servers in warez rooms with nifty little e-mails in them that were intitled somehting like 'Super Secret Upgraded AOL account!!!" and people would grab them up. Inside the E-mail it would say something along the lines of... "TO get a Upgraded AOL account send your master screen name and password. Plus your Credit Card type/Number/experation to: SupersecretAOLhaxxors@juno.com'
And you no what??? We got pages after pages of AOL screen names and CC #'s from it.... What gullable people. I mean, wouldn't everyone think it funny that AOL used Juno accounts to get these things??? Just think of the life of crime gerry and I could of had?? Instead we had pages and pages of these things... and left it at that. I guess the actual <>
"It's called "phishing" and it's the latest way criminals are trying to steal your identity. They'll cll or send you official-looking e-mail to trick you into revealing your credit card number, Social Security number or other form of ID."
Let me point out some problems with this... Phishing, which can also be shown as <><'ing has been around for a long... Long... time. Way back in the day when Gerry and I were l33t AOL hAxX0rS we did a little <><'ing. We'd run servers in warez rooms with nifty little e-mails in them that were intitled somehting like 'Super Secret Upgraded AOL account!!!" and people would grab them up. Inside the E-mail it would say something along the lines of... "TO get a Upgraded AOL account send your master screen name and password. Plus your Credit Card type/Number/experation to: SupersecretAOLhaxxors@juno.com'
And you no what??? We got pages after pages of AOL screen names and CC #'s from it.... What gullable people. I mean, wouldn't everyone think it funny that AOL used Juno accounts to get these things??? Just think of the life of crime gerry and I could of had?? Instead we had pages and pages of these things... and left it at that. I guess the actual <>
