Madaga-scary - Transcript - Hour 2, Segment 1

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David Lawrence: I was just going through my E-mail during the break. We take about maybe a 7 minute break at the top of the hour so that our stations can do the news. You hear the break news on stations like WGN in Chicago and KNEW in San Francisco and KFBK in Sacramento and I check my E-mail you know. Okay so inbound E-mail I had 150 new messages during that seven minutes, 149 of them were Spam. And one of the things that popped up was something I wanted to pass along to you last week that there has been a rapid increase in the number of E-mails that look more and more and more like the bank front pages, the eBay front pages, the PayPal front pages, the AOL front pages and now they are just moving on to taking the domain that your E-mail address is all about. If you are jondo@spcyahoo.com or if you are marysmith@aol.com, you might get a piece of E-mail that says in big bold letters in the subject you have successfully changed your password. This is a confirmation. So you look at it and you go wait a minute I didn*t change my password. And it says you have successfully changed the password to this E-mail account. Click here to change it in the future. Thank you very much, blah, blah, blah. Very light touch, very gentle but enough to scare you. Well I didn*t reset my, what are they like talking about, resetting my password, let me click on this link and find out what*s going on. That*s it. They got you right there because that link does not take you to the actual page. It takes you to a facsimile of the actual page. Most of the time an E-mail it*s not like you can watch any sort of status bar when you roll your mouse over the links in an E-mail. And so it*s sometimes little bit harder to determine whether that link in that E-mail is correct and when you add to the fact that most banks still if you do auto billing, auto bill payment so on, will send you an E-mail to tell you that they are about to pay a bill so that in case you don*t have money in there you can rush to the bank and get some money in your account. I am assuming that*s why they do it. Of course that never happens to me. You know they still send out stuff that looks exactly like what these password phishers are looking for. So when they take you to that reasonable facsimile of the website and you go and enter your user ID and password, they very happily push you right on towards the real website where again you*re asked to log in and you think yourself oh I just did log in, no. What you did was you just gave your user name and password to a thief. So be very careful. Don*t respond to things like that unless you know for sure that you have changed your password. It probably isn't somebody changing it for you. It*s probably somebody looking to gather your information based on that very, very good looking but false Trojan Horse of an E-mail.

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