I got a message from someone phishing as UPS. The interesting thing was that I was expecting a package on the same day from Amazon. I do not get a lot of UPS tagged spam and this one was written to slide through as a plain text message with a word document attached. The closeness to an Amazon delivery makes me wonder if someone has access to Amazon delivery information. On 12/16/19 2:04 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
This morning, I received a realistic looking message appearing to be from our hosting provider (linode) which was trying to convince me to send out my credit card information. Titled... "Linode Support Ticket 13142320 - Other - Account Limit reached. Please open a support ticket."
This may even be more of a "spear phishing" thing as it it was broadly personalized to me, as I help manage the GTALUG account at linode.
Something was looking suspicious about the URL... http://login.linode.com.login.return.to.https.21354545.paulinasfriends.com -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
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