[ILUG] Re: [SAGE-IE] Bank Of Ireland - phishing URL

[Brian Foster]

Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:57:13PM +0100, Declan Kelly wrote:
>> I got a phishing email earlier, allegedly from Bank Of Ireland
> [... BoI ] suggests to report it "immediately" to 1890 365 200
> [ ... ] whose opening hours are ... *sigh* ...  9am to 7pm,
> Monday to Friday (excluding Bank/Public Hulidays).
> 
> It's not hard to work out why they're being targetted on the
> Friday of a Bank Holiday weekend.

 A bank I use — which is not Irish and which, for
 the moment, I won't name — very clearly asks on
 its WWW site to send to a particular e-mail *all*
 phishing attacks claiming to come from that bank.

 I've tried to do this twice.  Both times my report
 was bounced bank for the reason “this looks like
 spam” ....  *sigh*  well, YES, it is spam!   Then,
 when I e-mailed them pointing out the problem, I
 got, in reply ....  nothing.  nil.  ziltch.  I've
 not tried another report since then so I dunno if
 they fixed the problem or not, but somehow, I am
 uninclined to bother going to the trouble again.

cheers!
	-blf-
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