[Cialug] Time to change your passwords.

Jeff Davis me at digitaljeff.com
Wed Oct 7 09:01:41 CDT 2009


I've gotten several questions recently from non-tech people who
have gotten fake IRS emails with links in them that look like this:
  http://www.irs.gov.go.nl

It was encouraging to me that those people recognized it enough
to not click it at the time and ask someone else about it.

-Jeff



On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Lathrop Preston <lathrop at prestonfam.org> wrote:
> Good point on this one. Granted you do have to trust the browser...
>
> while this overall issue may be a problem for the general public I
> suspect most of us here wouldn't fall for things like the typo'd
> addresses... but I could be wrong
>


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