Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing

[Craig Webster <craig () xeriom net>]

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
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Craig Webster | web: http://xeriom.net/
Xeriom.NET    | tel: +44 (0)131 516 8595
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