Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Sat, 17 Jan 2004
I received this today. It's obviously a scam, but I wonder how many people get suckered into providing enough information for somebody to potentially clean out your bank accounts. An excerpt:
Attention! In our global system of monitoring there was a technical failure. In avoidance of frauds with your credit card enter the full data for authorization, otherwise your credit card will be frozen during 10 day. [sic]
The message contains an online HTML form (partial screenshot here) asking for personal information like mother's maiden name, social security number, password, credit card number, ATM PIN, billing address, and so forth. Chutzpah!