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[PTTG??]

http://mashable.com/2009/02/24/viddyho/

Look out for "Check this out!" messages in Gmail.

[Creamcorn]

Dose this mean that my package of $1,000,000 to Nigerian is not going to return the inheritance left from a family member I never knew?

Seriously, I've been around the interwebz long enough, though I don't know about anyone else.

[Yanlin]

Nasty stuff.

[JoshuaFH]

I actually had to look up phishing to understand that article, but yeah, it looks like a pretty horrendous criminal practice.

Kinda makes me wish that there were Internet Police to track these suckas down... A-team style.

[Gunner-Chan]

Kinda makes me wish that there were Internet Police to track these suckas down... A-team style.

You mean wasting lots of daka on furniture and walls just so Mr. T can throw the bastards?

[JoshuaFH]

Kinda makes me wish that there were Internet Police to track these suckas down... A-team style.

You mean wasting lots of daka on furniture and walls just so Mr. T can throw the bastards?

Damn Straight!

[Brendan]

You mean wasting lots of daka on furniture and walls just so Mr. T can throw the bastards?

You can't waste dakka, though. That would imply that there was a point where you wouldn't need moar dakka.

[Servant Corps]

I saw a similar news article on an offical government newspaper recently.

Gmail account stealing emails on the loose

Gmail user accounts which are used by most email users are being stolen through an email which is disguised as an account alert message with the subject "Verify your free Gmail account now !!!

Sadly, the offical government newspaper's website isn't exactly a good website, so I couldn't read any more of this.

[cowofdoom78963]

How anyone could fall for phishing I could never know, good thing I never use my email.

[Squeegy]

Seriously, who clicks tinyURLs without previewing them first?

[Jude]

Seriously, who clicks tinyURLs without previewing them first?

Old people

[umiman]

You'd be surprised how clever some phising scams are. All it takes is 10 seconds of a hijacked major bank sign-in site to get plenty of client information. Sometimes, you don't have the time to tell the difference between Bank of America and Bank of Americ.a when the sites look exactly the same unless you're one of those freaks who checks his url bar EVERY SINGLE TIME.

I've seen fake redirected phising sites of places you don't really imagine to be hacked like some extremely obscure social networking sites catering to sadomasochistic furries (not that I ever visit those on a regular basis, oh no). The reasoning is that they take your user data from there and spam it everywhere else.

Sure, plenty of old people like your mom fall for phising, but for all you know, you could already be a victim of identity theft. They just laughed at your pathetic bank account and left you alone.

[Yanlin]

Joke's on you. I don't have a bank account.

[sonerohi]

Chh, I don't even use the internet. I put some horses inside a wheel and then tied the wheel to a box. This is an amnishuter.

[Servant Corps]

Sure, plenty of old people like your mom fall for phising, but for all you know, you could already be a victim of identity theft. They just laughed at your pathetic bank account and left you alone.

Or they could have taken one penny from boatloads of bank accounts and you didn't notice. Those pennies add up, and since nobody cares about a lost penny, you could be rich without having to worry about the police knocking down the door and calling in the tanks.