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Originally Posted by wyndslash
@rumpel: i can't believe that anyone ever fell for it o_O and you look so much like my friend, it's creepy  |
I think it's mostly older people who fall for it. They see an email which looks like it's been sent by their bank (the emails get better with less to no grammar/spelling errors and with all the logos) and they assume it's from their bank. In the past they got snailmail from the bank and never had to wonder if it was a scam or not. Younger people have grown up with emails scams and are more wary about trusting any email.
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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
@Rumpelteazer
fake twitter and facebook mails also get more and more popular
I don't use both so it's fairly easy to notice |
I regularly get those types of emails from eBay and PayPal, if my spamfilters don't catch them I delete them myself.
It wouldn't surprise me if in the coming weeks the banks release a press statement that it's phishing season again and people shouldn't trust emails asking for certain details.