To The Last Tribe Consulting

Please pass this on to all your friends. Sears needs to be recognized for this outstanding contribution and we need to show them as Americans, we do appreciate what they are doing for our military!!!

It’s verified ! By Snopes.comat:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/sears.as

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This SPAM email tells me that it’s verified by Snopes (It even gives a URL!), so I’m going to believe it and SPAM the rest of my address book!

Believe it or not, this is what happened to me recently.  If anyone even cared to click on the Snopes link (first checking to make sure that it acutally went to snopes.com and not some phishing site), you would see a big, fat, 404.

But, after doing a little digging around on snopes, I came to realize that it actually is on Snopes, but that they forgot the letter p on the .asp of the URL.  So the actually URL should be:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/sears.asp

I found it very interesting that people are starting to justify there spamming by invoking Snopes.com, as if it legitmizes their practice of spamming.

The moral of this post is two-fold:

1. If you are going to use Snopes.com to justify your SPAM,

please make sure you spell the URL correctly.

2. Please stop SPAMMING me, even if it IS verified by Snopes.

-Josh

Well, here is my excuse for taking so long to post: My wife and I drove 3k miles from California to South Carolina, to my home church.  So now that we are settled here in SC for the next 5-6 months, I will be writing more regularly, hopefully.

I thought I would add a short reminder for those of us who have facebook accounts, or any other kind of social networking accounts: We must always be viligent.  Take facebook: within the past 2 months, I have had 5 friend’s accounts post spam on my wall.  You know the kind:

Then, when you go to the blogspot, it redirects you to a phishing site, very well-done to look like facebook (check out the URL, that was how I figured it out).

One problem for this site though: Firefox’s Phishing Filter caught this  site and you can see the results:

But you say, I would never fall for that!  If I wasn’t specifically looking for this kind of stuff, I think I might have fallen for it–Because when you click on the spam link (which can look fairly legit), the phishing site for facebook comes up.  What do we do? Ohh man, something messed up with facebook, again, and I have to put in my username/password, again… And we do.

“So what’s the big deal,” my wife asks? “He can get into my facebook account.” “Ok,” I answer,” what email do you use for facebook login? Your gmail? Is your password for your gmail perchance the same as your facebook password? It is? hmmm… Is your gmail the email you use for your online bank?  It is, ok.  So you receive email every once in a while from the bank.  (In other words, if the attacker scans through your email, he can find where you do online banking.)  So now, if the attacker resets the password at your online bank account, where does that password get email too? ohhh, your gmail account!”  You start to see how crazy this could get?  Yes, online banks are finally starting to force other “security questions” as part of their online authentication, but if you have had the account before they started that, odds are that you haven’t setup the questions yet.

To top off the previous scenario, if the attacker gains access to all that data, he has a ton of information to mine to create a profile of you, to make it easier for Identity Theft.

Hey, just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean that aren’t after me!

Josh