From: "James Wilkinson Sword"    
   Subject: Re: Lots of phishing emails "from" Yahoo and Hotmail this week.   
       
   On Sun, 01 Jan 2017 02:55:10 -0000, Shadow  wrote:   
       
   > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 22:23:36 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 20:50:09 -0000, Shadow  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Telling me to change my password, and use two factor security, "for my   
   >>> safety". Apparently I can send a hash of my fingerprints, my cell   
   >>> phone number or my social security details.   
   >>>   
   >>> The headers appear to be authentic, but the Yahoo emails redirect to a   
   >>> site in Bosnia, and the Microsoft emails to a rent-an-IP company in   
   >>> Brazil.   
   >>>   
   >>> No serious company would ever demand you use two factor   
   >>> authentication. It's two vulnerabilities to exploit. Just use a STRONG   
   >>> password.   
   >>   
   >> I don't care about anyone stupid enough to fall for those.   
   >   
   >       Some of them are almost perfect, from the faked header to the   
   > long link with a redirect so far to the right it does not appear on   
   > the screen when you hover over it. You only see the "yahoo"or   
   > "live.com" followed by the usual (expected) string of datamining.   
   >       []'s   
       
   I've never seen one that even made me look twice.  Spelling and grammatical err   
   ors everywhere, bad alignment, wrong server used on all the links, blatantly ob   
   vious.   
       
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