Phishermen have no shame...

[seawasp]

... Got a spam/Phish message purporting to be from the CDC and asking me to create a "personal vaccination profile" for use in controlling H1N1 spread.

I really wonder how anyone can fall for these things; it's asking for stuff that the Constitution would forbid the government from doing, and all you have to do is mouseover the link to see that it's not going to the CDC, but to some server in another country.

Comments

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Well, what the Constitution says has never stopped the government yet. :/ But I agree, it's ridiculous. Still, people will do it.

[murstein.livejournal.com]

Despite a decade's attempts, reading URLs and the mouseover trick is beyond my mother's technical abilities. Not everyone this is true of is in their 70s, although this gives me some insight as to why some folks have trouble with the idea.

[randallsquared.livejournal.com]

"I really wonder how anyone can fall for these things; it's asking for stuff that the Constitution would forbid the government from doing"

Er, this was humor, right? I mean, given that the vast majority of what the government does is similarly forbidden by a non-tortured reading of the Constitution...

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

As sad as it is, I suspect that if a scam email went out to my users that said, "Hi, I am a scammer. Please reply to this email with your credit card and bank account information, date of birth, social security number, and mother's maiden name so that I may steal your identity and take all your money. KTHXBYE --Thief", I'd have at least a couple of users that'd fall for it.