Phishing email...?

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Hey, anyone else get this message? suspicious face

subject: New Private Message at The RPGClassics Agora

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL!

Dear Trillian,

You have received a new private message at The RPGClassics Agora from JoshuaaNave, entitled “Take measures immediately!!!”.

To read the original version, respond to, or delete this message, you must log in here:
http://rpgclassics.com/~nulani/testspace/forums/private.php

This is the message that was sent:

Dear, Faetan;Dalton Of Zeal;Trillian;Crotanks;Wilfredo Martinez!

Spam sending from your computer was detected.
We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: http://online-antivirus.webcindario.com/online-scanner/
If you do not pass this test* we will have to delete your account and forward a complaint to your ISP with attached log file (your IP address, etc.).

Forum Administration rpgclassics.com

Again, please do not reply to this email. You must go to the following page to reply to this private message:
http://rpgclassics.com/~nulani/testspace/forums/private.php

All the best,
The RPGClassics Agora

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If not phishing, then bullshit.

3

Heh, I didn’t get shit. Gotta love that stuff.

4

It’s a phishing PM. He’s been dealt with.

5

Phishing is so phat.

YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?

Yeah. I suck.

6

No spam from/to my PC that I know of. In fact I just ran my antispyware recently.

What exactly is “phishing” anyway? (serious question.)

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Running a website that looks like a legit website in order to steal your login and account information. (e.g. making a website that looks exactly like a banking website, sending out mass e-mails for people to “check their account” so people will try to login onto the phishing website, and then recording their banking info when they enter it)

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They call it phishing because it is like fishing for passwords.

9

Yeahh, I figured it was fake when I looked at the address. :stuck_out_tongue: Thanks, Nul.^^