Better bait than usual
This week’s best phishing expedition, and by “best” I mean “coming closest to making a sucker out of me,” began with the following:
Your AIM account is flagged as inactive. Within the following 72 hours it’ll be deleted from the system.
If you plan to use this account in the future, you have to download and launch the latest update for the AIM. This update is critical.
The link goes to somewhere that looks AOLish, but isn’t.
What gave it away: nobody in the history of instant messaging has ever said “the AIM.”
But admittedly, I hadn’t fired up AIM — actually, I use this instead — in several months, and I wouldn’t have been surprised to hear that my account actually had been flagged as inactive.
I did notice, though, that my contact count, once in the 50s, is down to 41.
Kay Dennison »
22 January 2010 · 3:53 pm
I can top this — sorta! I had deactivated my Facebook account and got a message telling me that it had been reactivated and I needed to go there. I went there and couldn’t find a problem which told me that they (Facebook) reactivated my account. I spent a lot of time and energy looking for a way to cancel my account and finally found it — I hope.
CGHill »
22 January 2010 · 5:47 pm
For some reason, there are a lot of things it’s darn near impossible to cancel — which, of course, makes you want to ditch them that much more.
McGehee »
22 January 2010 · 10:06 pm
All I’ve ever been able to find is a way to deactivate mine.
I’d like to put my Twitter account out of its misery too.