Last but not least: Phishing for dummies

Phishing e-mails used to be dangerous, but today they are mostly funny. And almost pitiable. Two nice new examples.

Thanks to modern, sophisticated and merciless spam filters, Gmail users, for example, have long since stopped noticing phishing and other fraud attempts. Our parent company's email service seems to be a little less scrupulous. It likes to turn a blind eye and let messages through that should actually be stuck somewhere. The advantage of this is that we really do receive everything from To you receive what we are supposed to. Even if we can unfortunately never publish all the messages.

On Monday, a certain Mihaela Adam gave us the good news that we had won something worthwhile. She left it open as to what or how much it is - it has to be a surprise!

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So much luck at the start of the week, fill out the form right away. While we're at it, we might as well sign the documents for Mastercard. The credit card company seems to have updated its internal policy and communicates this with a particularly confidence-inspiring letter:
 

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If this is the current level of phishing, we should probably soon be worried about this endangered species. Perhaps we should support the traditional industry from time to time by complying with their requests and allowing ourselves to be scammed a little. "After all, they have to make a living too." (hae)

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