Comments on: Phishing for Your Money http://www.suburbandollar.com/2009/10/08/phishing-for-your-money/ Where finance and reality meet Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:57:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: kenyantykoon http://www.suburbandollar.com/2009/10/08/phishing-for-your-money/comment-page-1/#comment-1912 kenyantykoon Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:52:45 +0000 http://www.suburbandollar.com/?p=1869#comment-1912 i got it- never click a link on an e mail :) i got it- never click a link on an e mail :)

]]> By: Mrs. Micah http://www.suburbandollar.com/2009/10/08/phishing-for-your-money/comment-page-1/#comment-1911 Mrs. Micah Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:42:46 +0000 http://www.suburbandollar.com/?p=1869#comment-1911 It's funny, I learned about phishing and spoofing through Neopets when I was 14ish. It was really abominable stuff--people would send neo-mails pretending to be from the Neopets team, set up fake login pages that looked exactly like Neopets login pages and redirect their Neopets stores to them so it looked like you'd logged out and had to log back in before buying. What was so wrong about these was that it was almost entirely kids playing. I know it wasn't "real" money, but stealing from kids is low. I suppose some of the people were doing it were other kids/teens, but I know a few were adults. On the other hand, Neopets taught its users a lot about this with no real-world consequences. The site now uses a login procedure similar to ING Direct's now, with a special picture & phrase (pic and name of your "pet") after you enter your username so you you know it's them. They'd send out warnings, kids talked about it in the forums, and you'd run into examples. So it was a good learning experience. It’s funny, I learned about phishing and spoofing through Neopets when I was 14ish. It was really abominable stuff–people would send neo-mails pretending to be from the Neopets team, set up fake login pages that looked exactly like Neopets login pages and redirect their Neopets stores to them so it looked like you’d logged out and had to log back in before buying.

What was so wrong about these was that it was almost entirely kids playing. I know it wasn’t “real” money, but stealing from kids is low. I suppose some of the people were doing it were other kids/teens, but I know a few were adults.

On the other hand, Neopets taught its users a lot about this with no real-world consequences. The site now uses a login procedure similar to ING Direct’s now, with a special picture & phrase (pic and name of your “pet”) after you enter your username so you you know it’s them. They’d send out warnings, kids talked about it in the forums, and you’d run into examples. So it was a good learning experience.

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