Another amusing phishing scheme
Oct. 19th, 2006 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneI imagine you've received the (insert country name here) National Lottery emails, I received an amusing one today from the Irish National Lottery. The amusing part was the subject line: "Success Alert!!!"
Now, as a network and database administrator, I'm used to alerts. We use alerts all the time to let us know when bad things happen: a disk runs out of space, a task fails, etc. People in my field expect alerts to mean something not good is happening. We don't get alerts that say "ALERT! You have lots and lots of disk space" or "ALERT! Everything is running perfectly normally!"
The phishers can't just say "You won!"?
Now, as a network and database administrator, I'm used to alerts. We use alerts all the time to let us know when bad things happen: a disk runs out of space, a task fails, etc. People in my field expect alerts to mean something not good is happening. We don't get alerts that say "ALERT! You have lots and lots of disk space" or "ALERT! Everything is running perfectly normally!"
The phishers can't just say "You won!"?
