Spot The Phishing Phraud

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-07-28 08:48pm

Can you tell which ones are phishing for information and which ones are legitimate?

For the reference, I got 10/10. It's actually easy if you know what to look for in email scams.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-07-28 09:37pm

10/10

Not hard at all, and I havn't been sent that many phish mails~

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2004-07-28 10:16pm

10/10

And I'm not even good at this kind of thing.

Pumako · Post by **Pumako** » 2004-07-28 11:58pm

Bah 9/10, I suck.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-07-29 12:06am

7/10.

Bah.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-07-29 12:12am

No soup for you

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2004-07-29 12:22am

7/10 - I suck. But I don't use any of these services either.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-29 01:17am

8/10- I rely on email headers and URLs (actual URL, not the one that is displayed) to tell the difference.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-07-29 01:25am

7/10.

And I, too, usually rely on the URL's (open the actual web site, check the URL you're at, check the URL you *should* be at for PayPal/eBay/Your Bank/etc, and if you're still suspicious check what site the images are linked from, as well).

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-07-29 02:08am

Bullshit test.

* I don't know if I am supposed to subscribe to any all or some of those services.

* I don't know under what name I am used if I signed up on those services.

* I canot see the headers in the mail

* I can't check the links in the "mail"

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2004-07-29 02:57am

I got 8/10, but would have got 10/10 if they hadn't "genericized" the e-mails. One I thought was fraudulent only because it said your credit card set to expire in 2008 is expiring soon, and the other I thought was legimite because the link pointed to the actual compnay site, but I couldn't click on it and find the real address it took me to.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-07-29 04:09am

Guys, that's what View Source is for. You can do it with emails too.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-07-29 06:22am

I got ten out of ten, which surprised me.

Basically, if it asks you for any information, it's BS. If it's just giving you info, it's legit.

Daltonator · Post by **Daltonator** » 2004-07-29 09:56am

Damn, I got trix0red by the Earthlink one since I'm on an old version of IE at the moment. Otherwise, 9/10. Not too shabby.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-07-29 10:03am

9/10

I clicked the wrong button on the earth link one

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-07-29 12:59pm

8/10.

The ones I got wrong though I thought were fraud when they were legit ^^;; I seem to be paranoid.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-07-29 02:36pm

9 out of 10. . . only one that got me was the citibank asking me to verify my account. once per month seemed fishy to me, though i always think of verification as simply clicking the link in the email and it's verified. it didnt' really give much more info beyond that. otherwise i typically tell spammy email by the headers, sending address and content of the body. if it doesn't have a header i don't recognize or am suspicious about i typically delete it as spam.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-07-29 02:51pm

Crayz9000 wrote:Guys, that's what View Source is for. You can do it with emails too.

No header information in View Source.

But then again I am very causious about e-mail so far no mail has fooled me, but there is always the first time for everything...

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-07-29 03:27pm

6/10. I must be pretty naive.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-07-29 09:10pm

Faram wrote:No header information in View Source.

But then again I am very causious about e-mail so far no mail has fooled me, but there is always the first time for everything...

It's not about the header information, though if you're really careful you can spot problems there too. It's about where the links point.

They disabled the links in the quiz, but you can still see where the original ones pointed. They didn't point to actual websites -- they pointed to carefully masqueraded phishing sites.

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2004-07-30 01:10am

8/10, pretty good for not filling out 2.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-07-30 01:47am

6/10. Of course, I really don't keep track of this sort of stuff. If I was any less informed of e-mail scams, I'd probably be checking out the spam mail promising a 10 inch penis.