Though I’ve ordered maybe one thing from Amazon in the past six months, I get e-mail from Amazon at least four or five times a week. Usually it’s suggestions — someone who bought this is generally now buying this, and don’t you need<\/i> to buy this, too? Well, okay, it’s always<\/i> suggestions.<\/p>\n
Suffice it to say, I know exactly<\/i> what an e-mail from Amazon looks like.<\/p>\n
Here’s a hint. It’s in HTML. It looks pretty.<\/p>\n
So when I get a plain-text e-mail from Amazon, telling me there’s something wrong with my account, telling me to click this link that right on the fucking screen<\/i> tells me it links to a website in Italy<\/I> with a URL that has zero<\/i> to do with Amazon, it’s obvious to me that it’s not actually<\/i> an e-mail from Amazon.<\/p>\n
For comparison’s sake. It took me far more time to write the previous sentence than it did to make the determination that the Amazon e-mail was, in fact, a phish from a scammer.<\/p>\n
Phishers are fucking stupid.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, it only takes one<\/i> person to fall for the phisher’s scam. One person.<\/p>\n
Be vigilant, peeps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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