My long-time friend Mark Kellner wrote in yesterday's Washington Times about how he may have been hooked by a phishing scam. He is a well-known and savy technology person. Yet, even he can be fooled by an email:
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It looked innocent enough. Heck, it even arrived on my iPhone. "It" was an e-mail purporting to be from Apple Inc.'s MobileMe service, the online e-mail, file-storage, photo-sharing, Web-hosting wonder formerly known as .Mac. And, I'll admit, I've come to place more than a little trust in Apple.
The e-mail, which had the "official" MobileMe logo and seemed to come from Apple, said there was an issue with charging my credit card for the monthly charges. Would I please go to a location and update the information? Again, I should have been skeptical. MobileMe service is billed annually; I should have remembered that. And, my account isn't up for renewal until December.
Still, I'm a trusting kind of guy when my hard-hat journalistic guise is removed. So I didn't click the button, but went to the MobileMe site, logged in and changed the information.
So far, so good, until I got the message that things weren't working at the moment. I'm not sure what I did next, other than to find myself entering several different kinds of credit card information and hoping one would work. Now, I was starting to get nervous.
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It looked innocent enough. Heck, it even arrived on my iPhone. "It" was an e-mail purporting to be from Apple Inc.'s MobileMe service, the online e-mail, file-storage, photo-sharing, Web-hosting wonder formerly known as .Mac. And, I'll admit, I've come to place more than a little trust in Apple.
The e-mail, which had the "official" MobileMe logo and seemed to come from Apple, said there was an issue with charging my credit card for the monthly charges. Would I please go to a location and update the information? Again, I should have been skeptical. MobileMe service is billed annually; I should have remembered that. And, my account isn't up for renewal until December.
Still, I'm a trusting kind of guy when my hard-hat journalistic guise is removed. So I didn't click the button, but went to the MobileMe site, logged in and changed the information.
So far, so good, until I got the message that things weren't working at the moment. I'm not sure what I did next, other than to find myself entering several different kinds of credit card information and hoping one would work. Now, I was starting to get nervous.
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