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How are we hooked by phishing?
My internet service provider Supanet tells me that emails which attempt to get my bank details and other personal information are not genuine and should be ignored - but I already knew that. What they can't or won't tell me is how I receive, via their service, phishing emails that are not addressed to me.
I have received several such emails in which the first six letters of the address are the same as my own email address, and which conclude with the words: @supanet.com, but in which the middle letters are nothing like those in the middle of my own.
Do you have any idea how this happens?
GD Thompson
Your e-mail address is one of the many e-mail addresses in the blind carbon copy (bcc) field on the spam e-mail.
Addresses in the bcc field are hidden to all recipients of the e-mail.
Posted by Edd | June 24, 2005 10:28 PM