{"id":4012,"date":"2007-12-14T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/bank-phishing\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T19:03:00","slug":"bank-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/bank-phishing.html","title":{"rendered":"Bank Phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here\u2019s the latest banking scam spam to grace my inbox. I don\u2019t share stuff that my spam filter catches, only the ones that make it through. This one is supposedly from U.S. Bank. That was the first giveaway \u2013 I don\u2019t have an account with them. But even if you get an e-mail from a bank or company you know, never just click a link to go to them. Type in the address by hand. Or, at the very least, if you click, look to see if you\u2019ve been taken to the site you want to go to. If it is something other than the bank\u2019s web site, or eBay\u2019s, or whoever\u2019s, then it is a fraud to get your information (commonly known as \u2018phishing\u2019). In this case, another giveaway was that the e-mail address the message came from wasn\u2019t <a href=\"mailto:something@thecorrectaddress.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">something@thecorrectaddress.com<\/a>. If you get something claiming to be from eBay, for instance, and the address it was sent from isn\u2019t <a href=\"mailto:________@ebay.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">________@ebay.com<\/a> then you know something is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Play it safe. Don\u2019t believe any e-mail asking for your password, telling you you have a message, asking you to update your account, or <em>anything<\/em> of that sort.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the text of the e-mail:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">_____________________________<\/div>\n<p>Internet Banking<br>We\u2019d like to inform you that your Message Center has 1 new message.<br>Please login to your Internet Banking and visit the Message Center section in order to read the message.<\/p>\n<p>Login to Internet Banking.<\/p>\n<p>(The Message Center contains only important information about your account and online banking.)<br>Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. 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