[KLUG Members] National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Phish

[Greg Mason]

>> My wife and I both received very seductive phishing email this  
>> morning
>> asking us to update our NCUA accounts. The email had a very detailed
>> replication of the NCUA web site (including various links). But the
>> address that showed when you ran your cursor over the "Click to  
>> update
>> your records" was not NCUA.
>
>>         Evolution/linux put the email right into junk, but both  
>> Outlook
>> Express (XP) and Entourage (on MAC OSX) opened it.

I'm wondering how this NCUA email would fair on Apple's Mail.app.  
PayPal emails get past it, but it's also been reviewed as having MUCH  
better junk filters than Entourage.

>>     The NCUA web site has a good warning about this pfishing.   
>> Readers of
>> this list won't need to be warned, but you might have clients that it
>> would be good to warn.  Stress that no reputable organization will
>> request this kind of information via email

PayPal has a good warning about this as well... They even have a  
place where you can report emails you receive.

> Why would I want to get in the way of natural selection?  Anyone who
> *STILL* reponds to these things is light years past hopeless.  I can't
> count how many times I've explained to people (and often the same  
> people,
> over and over and over again) that the "From:" is trivially forged.

These are the people that the "do not use hairdryer in bathtub"  
warnings labels are made for... I bet Darwin is cringing...

-Greg
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