[clug] Address Phishing (was Compaq Deskpro)

Tony and Robyn Lewis beakysnugger at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Apr 21 23:47:30 GMT 2005


Paul Wayper wrote:

>
> Not quite sure how you worked out that this wasn't a valid reply 
> address, or that it might somehow be invalid. I think you're 
> attributing to malice that which is caused by ... inexperience.

I reckon Steve's right - it's phishing. It looks like a message that 
could be generated after harvesting the email address and a couple of 
related keywords from the web or Google.

Tony



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