[Ads-l] New to me: _spearphishing_

[Wilson Gray]

Doing business on the Internet: forms and analysis - Page 10-34
https://books.google.com/books?id=fgY9AQAAIAAJ
Julian S. Millstein, ‎Jeffrey D. Neuburger, ‎Jeffrey P. Weingart - 1997 -
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A new type of phishing has also sprung up, called _"spear phishing."_ This
is a targeted scam that seeks out one company’s employees or members of a
particular association, claiming to be the group's e-mail provider or a
high-level executive.

Spearphishing has since been expanded to include real or imagined
customers, e.g.

"Dear Valued Customer,

In order for Amazon Customer Service to respond properly to your recent
communication regarding your last order, we shall need you to provide us
with access to all of your personal information,"

Yeah, right, hopeubentuk at playju4afool.tk

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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