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Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing
From: Craig Webster <craig () xeriom net>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:28:51 +0100
Hi All,
Something worth mentioning regarding this scam is that the fishing mails were written in the worst swedish I've ever seen, you could barely understand what they ment. Previous viruses/scams in swedish that I've seen were also kind of poorly written but this one actually looked like it was automatically translated from some other language by a very bad software. Some of the words are not even real words.In the beginning, we saw the same thing in Germany, but the attackers' language skills have improved somewhat. Spelling and grammer is mostly correct, but some stylistic issues remain.
Pretty much the only scams that land in my inbox are the poorly spelled ones. After all, if spam taggers can't understand the words then it's quite hard to tell if it's a spammy email or not. Ppl OTOH cn m4ke senzs 0f a lt off jun|<. I've had a lot of letters through from my bank that to me look a lot like phishing scams. In general they're trying to sell me a new service (spend ?5,000 and get ?5 back yay!), have HTML emails that are all images, encourage people to *click here* (and the link goes to a strange url) and are full of niggling little punctuation errors... it's basically training people not to check that emails claiming to be from this bank are legit. Luckily, I'm immune to both these legit emails and similar phishing mails. Quite apart from my spam tagger catching them, I delete my HTML emails; Deciphering them is more bother than they're worth when reading from the command line. Yours, Craig -- Craig Webster | web: http://xeriom.net/ Xeriom.NET | tel: +44 (0)131 516 8595 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing David Lodge (Oct 05)
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- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Dan Kaminsky (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Drsolly (Oct 05)
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- RE: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targetedphishing Aditya Deshmukh (Oct 04)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Florian Weimer (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Andreas Östling (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Florian Weimer (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Craig Webster (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing David Lodge (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Craig Webster (Oct 05)
- RE: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Drsolly (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Craig Webster (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Blue Boar (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Drsolly (Oct 05)
- Re[2]: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Pierre Vandevenne (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 05)