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E-mail Security with Phishing Scams

Jason Bean — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:03:00 +0000

I received an email today that was a phishing scam using the popular online payment website, PayPal. My Outlook client caught it as Junk Mail, but I thought it would be a good opportunity to show people how a legitimate “looking” email can really lead you to places you don’t want to go.

As you can see from the image above which is a screen capture from my email Inbox, everything looks normal and appropriate and legitimate right? However, if you hover your mouse over the links you’ll see that the link is actually going to direct you to a bogus website that’s been setup to collect your information. I’m sure if you went to the site (which I don’t recommend and which is why I’m not even typing the URL you’ll see) it would look just like the PayPal website too.

If you look at the code behind the email in your Inbox, which Outlook automatically displays for Junk Mail, we can see in the image below the bogus links much more clearly.

The lesson here is that before you go clicking on links in emails. Take a minute to hover over them before clicking and just make sure they’re going to take you to the place you’re expecting to go. Otherwise, you’ll end up in a place where you really don’t want to be.

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E-mail Security with Phishing Scams

Eminem Spoofs Tony Romo

Cherie Burbach — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:43:11 +0000

So this is what you get when you date Jessica Simpson. It isn’t bad enough that Justin Timberlake makes fun of you at the ESPY awards, or that your girlfriend sends out mushy words of love each and every time she is on stage, or that your level of play has dropped considerably since dating her.

No, all that is not enough. Apparently you have to get mad fun of by Eminem as well.

In case you haven’t seen it, Eminem has released a song and video (”We Made You“) that spoofs Jessica dancing in a bikini while Em puts on a Tony Romo uniform to get jiggy along with her. This isn’t the first time someone has made fun of Jessica, of course, but including Tony is definitely a first.

All I can say is he must really, really love that gal!

Images: Bauer-Griffin

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Eminem Spoofs Tony Romo

Too Much Manning

Jodie Lynn Boduch — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:00:27 +0000

Faithful reader Prospero (we think—we haven’t heard from him in a while) made an astute observation recently: Peyton Manning is in way too many commercials.

We mentioned this in passing the other day because the Manning ad overdose in the playoffs makes us suspect we see more of him than some of his teammates do. (Especially his receivers last Saturday! *hits rimshot*).

Why in tar-nation does the Indianapolis Colts QB get so many gigs? He’s not the only NFL player with charisma. Why, some people—we’re not incriminating ourselves or anything—don’t think the camera loves #18 all that much anyway.

It’s not our imagination. (Though we’ve been told we have a good one). There’s the Sprint one, the MasterCard one, and the Gatorade one, to name a few. But we have to give Manning credit for learning the art of parody, showcased in this United Way commercial spoof (2m, 2s) from Saturday Night Live:

That’s fun, but you know what would tickle us a flirtatious yet surprisingly functional shade of pink? If someone took the Manning “Mooning” story and made it into a Preparation-H commercial.

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Too Much Manning